From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 8 07:17:06 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA13202 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 07:17:06 -0700 Received: from tserv.lodgenet.com (root@[204.157.148.52]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA13136 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 07:15:40 -0700 Received: from jake.lodgenet.com (jake.lodgenet.com [204.124.120.30]) by tserv.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id JAA03264; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 09:14:56 -0500 Received: (from erich@localhost) by jake.lodgenet.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA04929; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 09:17:01 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 09:16:59 -0500 (CDT) From: "Eric L. Hernes" To: Brian Litzinger cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mosaic-linux-2.6b2 mostly works In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 8 Jun 1995, Brian Litzinger wrote: > Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 00:26:29 -0700 (PDT) > From: Brian Litzinger > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Mosaic-linux-2.6b2 mostly works > > Mosaic-linux-2.6b2 mostly works under the linux emulator that was > recently posted for xdoom. > > However, it get the error messages: > > resolv+: "hosts" is an invalid keyword > resolv+: "bind" is an invalid keyword > > and Mosiac is unable to do hostname to ip resolution. > > I.E. everything works find as long as you use IP numbers. > > Have I got something configured wrong? well, yes and no. Linux uses a different format for their /etc/host.conf file. If you look in your /etc/host.conf you will see amongst some comments the two lines: hosts bind which are confusing to linux' resolv+. the quick fix is to mv /etc/host.conf //etc/host.conf.bsd by the way Netscape works too. > > Thanks, > > Brian Litzinger > brian@easynet.com > > eric. -- erich@lodgnet.com erich@rrnet.com