> We require a period on the realm names, for one it forces people to use
...
> However the lookup in /etc/coda/realms happens before that point, so I
> didn't think it was affected by the extra paranoid checks. On the other
> hand, only specifying a realm name without hosts is like a negative
> lookup rule and is used to indicate that some realm definitely does not
> exist.

	In fact, coda works just fine with single word realm names.  We, at
least, haven't seen any problems.  Try following the instructions here: 

http://coda.wikidev.net/Configure_Coda_without_DNS

making absolutely sure that you get your /etc/hosts file setup
correctly.  Your problem sounds to me like "rover" isn't resolving
properly to a public IP address.  You probably have rover associated
with 127.0.0.1 and no dns server configured for it...

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