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From: "Jamie Townsend" <jamiet@defiance.com.au>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: DNS - no loopback host
Date: 21 Jan 1997 09:08:37 GMT
Organization: Defiance Mills Ltd
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I am having trouble with DNS & named in that although there is a host setup
as localhost at IP addr 127.0.0.1, it doesn't know that it is its self.

Any ideas?

Jamie

email:jamiet@defiance.com.au