Warning: Failed to get name/IP address for host ... [Name or service not known].

Help. On one of my machines, if one tries to do ANYTHING with wwwoffle,
from the time of boot until first connecting to the Internet, one gets

# wwwoffled -c /etc/wwwoffle/wwwoffle.conf
wwwoffled[3769] Warning: Failed to get name/IP address for host 'jidanni4' [Name or service not known].
wwwoffled[3769] Important: WWWOFFLE Demon Version 2.9f (with ipv6,with zlib,with gnutls) started.
wwwoffled[3769] Information: WWWOFFLE Read Configuration File '/etc/wwwoffle/wwwoffle.conf'.
wwwoffled[3769] Information: Running with uid=13, gid=13.
wwwoffled[3769] Information: Read in 0 trusted certificates.
wwwoffled[3769] Important: Detached from terminal and changed pid to 3772.
# wwwoffle -online -c /etc/wwwoffle/wwwoffle.conf
wwwoffle[3775] Warning: Failed to get name/IP address for host 'jidanni4' [Name or service not known].
wwwoffle[3775] Warning: Unknown host '0.0.0.0' for server [Address family for hostname not supported].
wwwoffle[3775] Fatal: Cannot open connection to wwwoffle server 0.0.0.0 port 8081.
# hostname
jidanni4
# host `hostname`
jidanni4 has address 127.0.0.1

After connecting to the Internet all works normally.

The problem occurs no matter what one puts in wwwoffle.conf, no matter
what one does with /etc/hosts, no matter what one does with pdnsd. Help.