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Not born that way.  I've migrated several laptops.  This is the first time I lost /etc/hosts.

> On 2018-10-19, at 05:01, Peter Dalgaard <pdalgd using gmail.com> wrote:
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> What? Are they born that way, or does Migration Assistent bungle things up? Or maybe OpenVPN does?
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> Anyways, try adding a line saying
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> 127.0.0.1	localhost
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> -pd
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>> On 19 Oct 2018, at 00:34 , Ben Tupper <btupper using bigelow.org> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> ben using gale ~ $ ping localhost
>> ping: cannot resolve localhost: Unknown host
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>> Here's /etc/hosts in its entirety.
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>> ben using gale ~ $ more /etc/hosts
>> # BEGIN section for OpenVPN Client SSL sites
>> 127.94.0.1      client.openvpn.net
>> 127.94.0.2      openvpn-client.vpn.bigelow.org
>> # END section for OpenVPN Client SSL sites
>> 
>> I'm not currently using VPN.
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>>> On Oct 18, 2018, at 6:29 PM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd using gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Cannot _find_ localhost?? Can you do this (in a Terminal window) ?
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>>> Peter-Dalgaards-MacBook-Air:STAT pd$ ping localhost
>>> PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
>>> Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
>>> Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
>>> ^C
>>> --- localhost ping statistics ---
>>> 3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
>>> 
>>> If not, what is in the first couple of lines in /etc/hosts?
>>> 
>>> -pd
>>> 
>>>> On 19 Oct 2018, at 00:09 , Ben Tupper <btupper using bigelow.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Just a little followup.  Switching the default browser from Firefox to Safari yields a similar message in the browser after...
>>>> 
>>>> Browse[2]> browseURL(x)
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>>>> 'Safari can't open the page "localhost:29682/library/utils/html/help.html"
>>>> because Safari can't find the server "localhost".'
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>>> -- 
>>> Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
>>> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
>>> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
>>> Phone: (+45)38153501
>>> Office: A 4.23
>>> Email: pd.mes using cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd using gmail.com
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>> Ben Tupper
>> Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
>> 60 Bigelow Drive, P.O. Box 380
>> East Boothbay, Maine 04544
>> http://www.bigelow.org
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>> Ecological Forecasting: https://eco.bigelow.org/
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> -- 
> Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
> Phone: (+45)38153501
> Office: A 4.23
> Email: pd.mes using cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd using gmail.com
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