On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 17:13:46 +0000, Jorey Bump sent:

> Just a guess, but is it possible that you are running apache in a chroot
> environment and it chokes when attempting to read /etc/hosts?

Apache doesn't read the hosts file, the TCP/IP stack does. Apache has the
system resolve addresses for it. There are some occasions when such
things ignore the hosts file and always use DNS look ups. If you're
running test servers, then it's really in your best interests to run a
local DNS server.

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