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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 10:31:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Elvin Peterson <elvin_peterson AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: apache fails to start when not connected to net
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--- Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Elvin Peterson wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >     Apache doesn't start when not connected to the
> web
> > even when the ServerName is set to the local
> loopback.
> >  This is due to a module mod_unique_id which does
> a
> > gethostbyname.  Disabling this module will have
> apache
> > running without trouble.  Is this a bug in that
> > module?
> > TIA.
> 
> Depending on your Windows version, your /etc/hosts
> should be a link to
> either C:\WINDOWS\hosts or
> %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.  Edit
> it and make sure that it contains "localhost". 
> E.g., my /etc/hosts
> contains:
> 
> 127.0.0.1       localhost
> 
> This should allow a gethostbyname("localhost")
> without network access.
> If this doesn't work, please review the Cygwin
> problem reporting
> guidelines at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html> and
> provide all the
> requested information.

The /etc/hosts file is fine and does contain the
definition for localhost.  But the module in question
is doing 

gethostbyname("mymachinename")

where mymachinename is the name given to the windows
machine during installation.

Thanks for the reply.


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