strange behaviour of firefox

[Robert Marcano]

On 08/08/2011 05:12 PM, François Patte wrote:
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> Le 08/08/2011 23:33, Veeti Paananen a écrit :
>> On 08/09/2011 12:23 AM, François Patte wrote:
>>> Bonsoir,
>>>
>>> I have been trying for many days to use swat with firefox, typing in
>>> the url form:
>>>
>>> http://localhost:901
>>>
>>> This failed because firefox try to open this url: www.localhost.com
>>
>> This is just a guess, but perhaps your /etc/hosts file is missing
>> something like this:
>>
>> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost (your hostname)
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> No! My /etc/hosts is (this is the file written by fedora installer):
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> 127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4
> localhost4.localdomain4
> ::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6
> localhost6.localdomain6

Check /etc/nsswitch.conf and look for:

hosts:      files dns

files must be there


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