On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Jesse Swensen wrote:

.. I am trying to get named running.  I get a couple of things I am unsure of
.. 
.. When netbsd first starts up I get:
.. 
.. configuring network interfaces:ae0.
.. writing to routing socket: File exists
.. add host minimac: gateway localhost: File exists
.. 

Just a small addition to what other people have already answered: Within
the last two months something was changed in -current that required me to
change

      127.1 localhost

to

      127.0.0.1 localhost

in my /etc/hosts. The symptom was message like your above mentioned
"File exists" messages.

regards
Erik Bertelsen