Jeff Stevens <jeff@mossycup.com> writes: > I don't have access to AIX, HPUX or other major Unices, but I bet in the > hosts file, 127.0.0.1 is immediately followed by localhost -- and other > aliases follow localhost. "localhost" *must* be first. AIX 5.2: 127.0.0.1 loopback localhost HP-UX 11.00: 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback IRIX 6.5: 127.0.0.1 localhost Tru64 4.0G: 127.0.0.1 localhost -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>