Unable to resolve localhost

[Micheal]

On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 20:17, Shawn Kovalchick wrote:
> 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