From: richard AT smartmedia DOT co DOT uk (Richard Thomas) Subject: Help: X Windows Problem 20 Mar 1998 00:33:10 -0800 Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980318134202.0099cd60.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com NT is probably using DNS to look up localhost (and hence needing to connect to your isp). Try using 127.0.0.1 instead. alternatively, there may be a hosts file somewhere you can add it to (Though I wouldnt know where) Rich - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".