In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >Usually it's a problem in the inclusion of nameservers (do you include >localhost?), and the "order" directive in /etc/host.conf: > > order hosts,bind
Host.conf isn't used with libc6 anymore (i.e. for the last 2 years). It's now /etc/nsswitch.conf Mike.