Re: problem with port forwarding

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_dodgy.net.au)
Date: 12/04/03 

Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 05:40:28 GMT

In article <rkrzb.91677$361.29737@news.chello.at>,
Georg D. <georg@nospam> wrote:
>I wonder if it would help to add localhost as 127.0.0.1 in hosts and
>on the dns server. Is this a good idea?

Depends on your resolver configuration. Probably won't hurt. 

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