apache fails to start when not connected to net

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Elvin Peterson wrote:

> Hello,
>     Apache doesn't start when not connected to the web
> even when the ServerName is set to the local loopback.
>  This is due to a module mod_unique_id which does a
> gethostbyname.  Disabling this module will have apache
> running without trouble.  Is this a bug in that
> module?
> TIA.

Depending on your Windows version, your /etc/hosts should be a link to
either C:\WINDOWS\hosts or %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.  Edit
it and make sure that it contains "localhost".  E.g., my /etc/hosts
contains:

127.0.0.1       localhost

This should allow a gethostbyname("localhost") without network access.
If this doesn't work, please review the Cygwin problem reporting
guidelines at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html> and provide all the
requested information.
HTH,
	Igor
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