From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 5: 7:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from galima.2y.net (HSE-Toronto-ppp173942.sympatico.ca [64.229.65.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 112ED37B9AB for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 05:07:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cactoss@yahoo.com) Received: from localhost (cactoss@localhost) by galima.2y.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA01089 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 08:08:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cactoss@yahoo.com) X-Authentication-Warning: galima.2y.net: cactoss owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 08:08:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Alexander Anderson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: resolving localhost Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I am having weird problem with "localhost". It started yesterday when I ran fetchmail. I got: > fetchmail 18 messages for myself at pop.mail.yahoo.com (71499 octets). reading message 1 of 18 (2148 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.mail.yahoo.com fetchmail: Query status=SMTP I decided to check if there is a problem with "localhost" configuration on my system by trying other programs. rsh, rlogin, ping all worked for localhost. But telnet didn't: > telnet localhost localhost: No address associated with hostname I checked /etc/hosts for the presence of aliases for localhost, made sure /etc/host.conf has hosts than bind. I'm clueless. I should mention that I got a screenful of "no matching session" messages during this night. It might be related to this problem. What is weird is that I haven't touched any of the configuration files lately, except for /etc/rc.firewall. I compiled IPFIREWALL into the kernel 4 days ago. Thank you for your help! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message