padmaja.rv at vodcalabs.com wrote: > > the /etc/hosts file has the following content: > > > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > > # that require network functionality will fail. > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost sipserver > > 192.168.50.51 sipserver.vodcalocal.com > take 'sipserver' /off/ the localhost line and add it to the regular IP line. I'm not sure /why/ anacdonda or whatever insists on doing this, but using your hostname as localhost is generally quite wrong and can result in all sorts of odd little behaviors.