From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 9 8:47:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B44E37B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 08:47:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA58488; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 11:47:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 11:47:14 -0500 (EST) From: Stephen Hovey To: Bart Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hosts In-Reply-To: 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 First glance - ditch the period (.) at the end of wg.core.quad.nl in hosts On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Bart wrote: > > Hi (again), > > A added an entry to my hosts file but somehow it just 'skips' > this file when trying to resolve ? > > wg# cat hosts > 127.0.0.1 localhost.core.quad.nl localhost > 212.104.204.104 wg.core.quad.nl. > > wg# ping wg.core.quad.nl > ping: cannot resolve wg.core.quad.nl: Host name lookup failure > > What am I doing wrong ? > > With regards, > Bart Pustjens > > > > 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