Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 23:03:57 -0500 From: Raymond Law <rlaw@vt.edu> To: Nick Slager <nicks@albury.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS server Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.20001206230357.0069d758@mail.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <20001207144622.B74591@albury.net.au> References: <3.0.1.32.20001206212048.006e3ed0@mail.vt.edu> <3.0.1.32.20001206174404.006d3cf8@mail.vt.edu> <3.0.1.32.20001206174404.006d3cf8@mail.vt.edu> <20001207094110.B40394@albury.net.au> <3.0.1.32.20001206175433.006da248@mail.vt.edu> <20001207094939.C40394@albury.net.au> <3.0.1.32.20001206180822.006e4800@mail.vt.edu> <20001207100819.D40394@albury.net.au> <3.0.1.32.20001206183449.006a760c@mail.vt.edu> <20001207104546.F40394@albury.net.au> <3.0.1.32.20001206212048.006e3ed0@mail.vt.edu>
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That's what's frustrating. It doesn't work either I have that hostname/IP entry in /etc/hosts or not when I am at school. Thanks. Ray, At 02:46 PM 12/7/00 +1100, Nick Slager wrote: >Thus spake Raymond Law (rlaw@vt.edu): > >> The problem I described did not happen when I just installed FreeBSD in >> school. When I went back home working offline and tried to open KDE, it >> gives error because gethostbyaddr() or some other related sys call (don't >> remember exactly) fails when KDE starts. I then manually added a >> hostname/IP entry in hosts. Everything works fine at home. However, the >> problem arises when I come back to school and connect it to the network. >> >> Any idea what might went wrong? I appreciate your help very much. > >If you remove the hostname entry in /etc/hosts when at school, does it >work? > > >Nick > >-- > From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): > "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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