Hello, > My /etc/hosts file reads like this : > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain yes because localhost and localhost.localdomain is completly different if you have put sth in localdomain name. put in /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain and btw: what do you have in /etc/host.conf ? try: order hosts,bind -- Cheers, Marcin.