From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 9 17: 0:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ajax.ZONE.NET (ajax.zone.net [198.240.3.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B172437B8AD for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 17:00:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cbooth@aixx.net) Received: from bay3-468.nyc.ziplink.net (cbooth@bay3-468.nyc.ziplink.net [209.206.22.215]) by ajax.ZONE.NET (8.8.8/970824) with ESMTP id UAA12863; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 20:00:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 19:58:50 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher J. Booth" X-Sender: cbooth@localhost.localdomain To: Jeremy Falcon Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/host file? In-Reply-To: <00030919155501.00767@local.imputek.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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