hosts file

[eoghan]

Ken Stevenson wrote:
> eoghan wrote:
>> Ken Stevenson wrote:
>>> eoghan wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>> Has anyone got an example of how the hosts file should be setup to 
>>>> allow locahost to work in a browser? Mine doesnt work anymore unless 
>>>> i go through the ip. This is when i start apache, maybe there is 
>>>> some other place i need to set it? The httpd.conf has localhost in 
>>>> it...
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Eoghan
>>>
>>> Try deleting the ::1
>>
>> I have tried this (it was originally commented out), I re-commented it 
>> out and still not working...
>> Eoghan
> 
> What do you get when you type:
> 
> ping localhost

Hi
Same thing as when i ping 127.0.0.1:

nathaniel#ping localhost
PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address

Eoghan