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after installing anew Ubuntu 11.04 can't resolve to localhost. I'm trying:

root@valk-pc:~# nslookup localhost
Server:     10.0.0.138
Address:    10.0.0.138#53

Non-authoritative answer:
*** Can't find localhost: No answer

My /etc/resolv.conf has this:

# Generated by NetworkManager
domain siemens
search siemens
nameserver 10.0.0.138

And /etc/hosts contains a valid localhost entries. What can be done? Thanks!

valk
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Not being able to resolve localhost with nslookup is probably normal - it's specifically for querying nameservers, and unless the nameserver you're querying has a record for localhost, you won't get a response.

On Linux (and any other UNIX-alike system), you'll find an entry for localhost in /etc/hosts:-

127.0.0.1   localhost

Not sure why you're trying to resolve localhost, but if you're having problems, check in /etc/hosts first.

Edit: looking at your other post, I'm not sure why you're trying to look up localhost. If you can ping it, then resolving localhost isn't your problem...

Andy Smith
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  • I believe that something is wrong there. /etc/hosts is okay. And pinging from localhost is ok. Only when typing localhost in any browser, the problem is appearing. I was suggested to try **nslookup localhost**, and indeed the output is: **Can't find localhost: No answer**. – valk Dec 02 '11 at 20:35
  • Which, as I said before, you won't, because DNS servers are unlikely to resolve localhost. Do you have a system-wide proxy set? – Andy Smith Dec 02 '11 at 21:18
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At last I found this thread, and as it's there, in mine case as well, when I tried

sudo ping localhost

then I got a correct answer.

So I tried changing /etc/hosts to

chmod 777

and it worked. Finally chmod'ed it to 644 and the problem is now resolved.

valk
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