On Thursday 27 February 2003 12:50, Buchan Milne wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Reinout van Schouwen wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Buchan Milne wrote: > >>> a) Edit /etc/hosts > >>> b) Give up on proftpd / gnome and use something else. > >> > >>c) Fix your DNS. > > > > Hello! Does my mother have a DNS on her standalone PC? Didn't think so. > > GNOME, too, should Just Work for standalone configurations without having > > an advanced user intervene first. > > No, on here machine, zeroconf should work (I am sure I wrote that > somewhere in this mail) if she has a network card in it. If there is > *no* network interface anywhere on the machine, then it *may* be > necessary to add an entry to /etc/hosts. >
loopbackdevice is a network interface If i'm not mistaken. And she needs it to run X
