Re: help needed urgently with hostlookup failure ..please
> I cannot seem to be able to even ping any other machine on the
> network. I do
> > telnet localhost. I get
> >localhost: Host name lookup failure.
Telnet is different than ping. Try ping localhost to make sure your
loopback interface is working correctly. My bet is you don't have a
telnet service running on your box so there is no daemon to answer that
request. If you have a server listening on a port you can try telnet
localhost <PORT>
--Mark Thurman
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