Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!campus.swarthmore.EDU!BUG From: BUG@campus.swarthmore.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: "Network security violation" Message-ID: <8905171542.aa08103@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 17 May 89 19:35:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 9 Regarding Poehlmann's problem: One has to have the right loopback number in the right place in the file /etc/hosts, or one can get locked out of 4-sight in just this way. In our version of that file, the FIRST entry that is not a comment must be 127.1 localhost I'm afraid I don't know if this number must be the same from machine to machine, but you should have it correct in the old version of your operating system - and I see no reason why this number should change between revisions. Good luck. Amy Bug, Swarthmore College physics dept. (BUG@SWARTHMR)