Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 19:11:17 -0600 From: Jeremy Falcon <jeremy@intersurf.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: cbooth@aixx.net Subject: Re: /etc/host file? Message-ID: <00030919155501.00767@local.imputek.com>
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Is camelot the machine name? If so, your loopback device should point to 127.0.0.1, not your machine name. Try this instead (in /etc/hosts).... 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.example.com ...where "example.com" is the domain you specified for the machine during the installation. This may or may not fix the problem, but at least it'll stop problems in other areas. Hope this helps, Jeremy L. Falcon > Hi, FreeBSDers: > > I have recently installed FreeBSD 3.4 on a new PC. I have been trying to > dial out to my ISP to get email, Web browse, read newsgroups, and so on. I > am able to dial out and connect, and can communicate with the ISP's > servers. The problem is that my connection will stall. The only way I am > able to renew the connection with the mail or news servers or with the > internet is to redial. The length of time that my connection works is > quite variable. > > I have swapped in another modem, and the same thing happened, so I think > that I have pretty well eliminated a hardware problem. Neither modem is a > winmodem. > > My dialup account is a dynamic PPP account. I am dialing in to an ISP in > New York City using local New Jersey access numbers. > > The embarassing thing here is that when I dial in from the Windows 98 > partition the connection is fine. I don't have the same problem using > Internet Explorer or Outlook Express. > > This is what my /etc/host file looks like. > > 127.0.0.1 localhost camelot. > > Can anyone suggest what where I might look to solve this inconvenience? > > Thank you. > > Christopher J. Booth > cbooth@aixx.net > > > > > > > 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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