>Appart from setting your address and host and domain names in /etc/hosts, do >you >have a "lookup file bind" line in /etc/resolv.conf ? If you don't, it defaults >to "lookup bind file", so it will query DNS first, and then look into >/etc/hosts. There is a possibility this too can confuse talk.
Adding `lookup bind file` to resolv.conf solved the issue. Thank you, Zeljko. Ben Raskin.
