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Russell Slater wrote: |
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> I am relatively new to Gentoo and I am having a problem resolving |
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> localhost. I always get "unknown host localhost" I can connect to any |
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> other site such as www.yahoo.com <http://www.yahoo.com> but nothing else |
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> works. I have gone through the Gentoo Handbook several times and googled |
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> the issue but could not find a resolution. Please let me know what you |
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> files you might need to look at to troubleshoot the issue. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Russ |
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Normally localhost maps to 127.0.0.1 inside /etc/hosts (see the hosts(5) manpage). This file basically allows you to override the normal DNS resolution process for specific host names. |
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Zac |
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