Re: [tlug] emacs requiring network connection

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 09/05/07, Hector Akamine <akamine@example.com> wrote:

> According to this page, emacs does a lookup on the host name (thus,
> if the translation is not available locally it talks to the dns server).
> After adding the following line to the /etc/hosts file, I was able to start
> emacs without requiring to be connected to the network:
>
> 127.0.0.1       myhostname      localhost.localdomain   localhost

Ah yes. Not having a name for 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts will likely
cause issues for any number of programs.

Which distro are you running that did not populate this by default?

-Josh