What? Are they born that way, or does Migration Assistent bungle things up? Or 
maybe OpenVPN does?

Anyways, try adding a line saying

127.0.0.1       localhost

-pd

> On 19 Oct 2018, at 00:34 , Ben Tupper <btup...@bigelow.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> ben@gale ~ $ ping localhost
> ping: cannot resolve localhost: Unknown host
> 
> Here's /etc/hosts in its entirety.
> 
> ben@gale ~ $ more /etc/hosts
> # BEGIN section for OpenVPN Client SSL sites
> 127.94.0.1      client.openvpn.net
> 127.94.0.2      openvpn-client.vpn.bigelow.org
> # END section for OpenVPN Client SSL sites
> 
> I'm not currently using VPN.
> 
> 
>> On Oct 18, 2018, at 6:29 PM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Cannot _find_ localhost?? Can you do this (in a Terminal window) ?
>> 
>> Peter-Dalgaards-MacBook-Air:STAT pd$ ping localhost
>> PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
>> Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
>> Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
>> ^C
>> --- localhost ping statistics ---
>> 3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
>> 
>> If not, what is in the first couple of lines in /etc/hosts?
>> 
>> -pd
>> 
>>> On 19 Oct 2018, at 00:09 , Ben Tupper <btup...@bigelow.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Just a little followup.  Switching the default browser from Firefox to 
>>> Safari yields a similar message in the browser after...
>>> 
>>> Browse[2]> browseURL(x)
>>> 
>>> 'Safari can't open the page "localhost:29682/library/utils/html/help.html"
>>> because Safari can't find the server "localhost".'
>>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
>> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
>> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
>> Phone: (+45)38153501
>> Office: A 4.23
>> Email: pd....@cbs.dk  Priv: pda...@gmail.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> Ben Tupper
> Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
> 60 Bigelow Drive, P.O. Box 380
> East Boothbay, Maine 04544
> http://www.bigelow.org
> 
> Ecological Forecasting: https://eco.bigelow.org/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Phone: (+45)38153501
Office: A 4.23
Email: pd....@cbs.dk  Priv: pda...@gmail.com

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