Libwww problem on Win 2000?

I'm new to libwww but didn't see this problem posted in the archive. My
apologies if it has already been asked and answered.

Installed Vladimir Kozlov's pre-built Win32 libwww 5.2.8 binaries.
Libwww tools like comline.exe and WinCom.exe work as expected, provided
the URI references a remote machine. If the URI references my local
machine's web server, the libwww tool hangs for many minutes (tried all
variants: machine name, localhost, IP address). It resolves the name
fine as I get the hang after "Contacting machinename" message is
displayed.

The wrinkle is that I am running Windows 2000 RC2. Installed and tried
the tools on an NT 4 installation and they run without problems.

Is this a known issue and is there a work-around (besides the
obvious--don't use Windows 2000)?

Thanks in advance.
--Steven Gray
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