New subject: Unable to resolve localhost

1 Nov 2004


      The thing is, I can ping localhost.  Nothing else has a problem
talking to localhost, it's just postgresql.  It has the same setup
files as a separate installation on my home Gentoo box, which works
fine.
On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 20:44:08 -0600, Micheal sundance@sundanceloki.com wrote:
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On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 20:29, Shawn Kovalchick wrote:
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ifconfig lo
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:2503 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2503 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:2402682 (2.2 Mb)  TX bytes:2402682 (2.2 Mb)
On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 20:23:30 -0600, Micheal sundance@sundanceloki.com wrote:
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On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 20:17, Shawn Kovalchick wrote:
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I'm trying to set up a postgresql server on FC2, and it seems that the server
is unable to look up 127.0.0.1.  Further investigation shows that dig
is unable to return anything for localhost or a reverse lookup for
127.0.0.1.  /etc/hosts has an entry for 127.0.0.1 pointing to
localhost and localhost.localdomain.  Am I missing something?
Relevant sections of configuration files follow:
/etc/nsswitch.conf contains this line:
hosts:      files dns
/etc/hosts contains:
127.0.0.1  localhost  localhost.localdomain
I apologize if this has been double posted, it appears that the
initial post didn't take, as I was not yet signed up on the list.
What does the out put of
/sbin/ifconfig lo
give?
MC
Thats tough. Nothing wrong with hosts or nsswitch.conf. If you can't
ping localhost. I would check your iptables and/or your postrgresql
configuration.  Other than that, thats all I can suggest for now.
MC

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