I renamed hosts.sam to hosts, rebooted the machine, and still get the same error message: C:\Programs\Zope>start C:\Programs\Zope>"C:\Programs\Zope\bin\python.exe" "C:\Programs\Zope\z2.py" Traceback (innermost last): File "C:\Programs\Zope\z2.py", line 417, in ? logger_object=lg) File "C:\Programs\Zope\ZServer\medusa\http_server.py", line 528, in __init__ ip = socket.gethostbyname (socket.gethostname()) socket.error: host not found Weird... (Thanks for the suggestions so far!) On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Anthony Pfrunder wrote:

No,

It needs to be called HOSTS (not HOSTS.SAM) or Windows won't read it

On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Rob Page wrote:

...

I have a HOSTS.SAM file in C:\WINDOWS with the entry 127.0.0.1 localhost

the hosts.sam that comes with windows is the SAMple.

copy hosts.sam hosts

that should work

--Rob