Re: localhost redux

> If localhost isn't being resolved correctly are you seeing error
> messages like this on the server log (from pqcomm.c)?
>
> "could not translate host name \"%s\", service \"%s\" to
> address: %s"

After poking around, I found the following:
The Windows pdc (==name server :-( ) does really not resolve localhost (this might
be common for Windows nameservers). I do not have a services entry for 5432,
and don't have a dns record for this RS6000.

LOG: could not translate service "5432" to address: Host not found
WARNING: could not create listen socket for "*"
LOG: could not bind socket for statistics collector: Can't assign requested address

Setting to a port, that is listed in /etc/services does not change anything
(except the port of course).

I do not have those problems on a machine where dns lists the machine and localhost.
This machine has a long obsolete oslevel 4.3.2, so am not sure it is worth pursuing
the issue. I only wanted to state, that it does not work here under certain cirumstances
eighter.

Andreas