Michael Tsai on Twitter: "@soryu2 My guess is that /etc/hosts is gone or damaged, but these were non-technical users who wouldn’t have intentionally touched it."

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Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai 8 Aug 2012

I now have two customers whose Macs are reporting kCFURLErrorCannotFindHost when trying to connect to “localhost”; 127.0.0.1 works, however.
Stan ‏@soryu2 8 Aug 2012 Berlin, Deutschland

@mjtsai /etc/hosts gone?

‏@mjtsai

@soryu2 My guess is that /etc/hosts is gone or damaged, but these were non-technical users who wouldn’t have intentionally touched it.

9:10 AM - 8 Aug 2012

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