Unable to resolve localhost

[Shawn Kovalchick]

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 at sundanceloki.com> wrote:
> 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
> 
>