[Mediawiki-l] Bug in 1.6.3?

[Malcolm Ross Kinsella Ryan]

I just installed MediaWiki 1.6.3. It all seems to have gone okay, with 
the exception of an error message at the top of the browser window:

  Warning:  socket_sendto() Host lookup failed [-10001]: Unknown host in
  wiki/includes/GlobalFunctions.php on line 1504

I checked out the offending line, and it appears to be trying to open a
socket to a machine called "webster" to do some kinds of statistics logging.
I commented the line out and everything seems to work just fine.

What's going on here? 

Malcolm

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