The thing is, I can ping localhost. Nothing else has a problem
talking to localhost, it's just postgresql. It has the same setup
files as a separate installation on my home Gentoo box, which works
fine.
On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 20:44:08 -0600, Micheal <sundance(a)sundanceloki.com> wrote:
On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 20:29, Shawn Kovalchick wrote:
> 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(a)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
> >
> >
>
Thats tough. Nothing wrong with hosts or nsswitch.conf. If you can't
ping localhost. I would check your iptables and/or your postrgresql
configuration. Other than that, thats all I can suggest for now.
MC