thanks for posting a solution. not many people seem to around here. i ran into this problem trying to set mythtv frontend access to the knoppix backend, but as your posts suggests, the hosts file has something to do with it. i'd assumed the same but wasn't sure how to change it.

commenting out the bind address and giving permissions to access from any host (%) hasn't worked so far so i'm going to try your suggestion as soon as my recording finishes. i'll post back to report whether or not its resolved my problem.

i assumed it may be a problem specific to knoppix as it is a live distro.