Thomas Cameron wrote: >> What you are describing is almost surely a matter of your host not being >> able to resolve its own name. Nothing whatsoever to do with SELinux. >> >> Post the contents of your /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf files. >> >> I'm betting good money that localhost does not resolve. Karl Larsen > [karl@k5di ~]$ cat /etc/hosts > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > # that require network functionality will fail. > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 > 192.168.0.1 dsl > [karl@k5di ~]$ ^^^^ "k5di" is your hostname, it's not in the hosts file contents you listed above. Add it, and see if your troubles go away. > [karl@k5di ~]$ ping localhost > PING localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 > time=0.060 ms > > OK how much money were you going to send :-) Don't count your chickens... ;-) > [karl@k5di ~]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf > ; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script > nameserver 216.234.192.92 > nameserver 216.234.213.130 > [karl@k5di ~]$ > [karl@k5di ~]$ > > It all looks fine to me. Looks reasonable. Another thing to check is "/etc/nsswitch.conf" and look for the line beginning with "hosts", here is mine: hosts: files dns This means, first try the hosts file to resolve the name, then try DNS. -- (This laptop runs FC7, my other boxes run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.