OK, I have modified netcfg so that it writes 127.0.0.1 localhost to /etc/hosts. >From now on let's consider at least the following two phenomena to be bugs: * The application expects to be able to resolve 'localhost.localdomain' to an IP address. * The application breaks if 'localhost.localdomain' is included on the 127.0.0.1 line in /etc/hosts. -- Thomas Hood