On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, April G Gruhn wrote:

> Well I did it, but I got a new problem. I can't do "ping localhost",
> also when I setup ppp via the ppp script, I can't access the
> internet. Whats the deal here?

you should have a line:

127.0.0.1	localhost

in /etc/hosts.  I think that should fix the 'ping localhost' problem.
Don't know about ppp problems.  I haven't set up ppp in a long long time.

-Dan

ps, please just reply directly to the mailing list.  you're much more
likely to get answers that way.