From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 6 22:42:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA13828 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 22:42:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA13812 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 22:41:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA05463; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 22:41:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 22:41:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Riwan cc: questions@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: localhost In-Reply-To: <3256ADF1.167EB0E7@usa.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 5 Oct 1996, Riwan wrote: > I am using netscape. > for smtp server and pop server I set localhost > I am running popserver and sendmail > > When I am connected to internet (dial out non dedicated connection using > iijppp) > netscape can not resolve name "localhost", so I can not send and receive > email > (from localhost). Take a look at /etc/hosts and make sure localhost is in there. I suggest changing /etc/resolv.conf to be the order: hosts bind when on dialup. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major