Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 19:58:50 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher J. Booth" <cbooth@aixx.net> To: Jeremy Falcon <jeremy@intersurf.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/host file? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003091949310.1171-100000@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <00030919155501.00767@local.imputek.com>
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Thank you, Jeremy: I will try that. I thought that this is a deprecated solution, since my machine is not actually a part of my ISP's domain--my account is dynamic. Do I misunderstand? Thank you again. I'll see if that works. Christopher J. Booth cbooth@aixx.net On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Jeremy Falcon wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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