From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 23 12:07:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA02173 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 12:07:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rig1.rigroup.com (rig1.rigroup.com [204.233.70.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01966 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 12:06:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phineas@webfreaks.com) Received: from webfreak ([209.66.77.155]) by rig1.rigroup.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.01) with SMTP id AAA3224; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:07:16 -0500 X-Sender: phineas@mail.webfreaks.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 12:07:22 +0000 To: goldfish@value.net From: "Mark Castillo - webFreaks.com" Subject: Re: Unable to Telnet to myself Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: <19980223200714.AAA3224@webfreak> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In /etc/resolv.conf, you probably have your ISP's DNS servers listed. When their server looks up "mydomain.com", it fails (since I doubt you have "mydomain.com" registered). Also, in your /etc/host.conf file, the order of resolving takes effect. usually the order is bind, hosts. Change this to hosts, bind. This tells your machine to check your hosts file, before trying to resolve names via DNS. At 11:38 AM 2/23/98 -0800, you wrote: >I set up the ISP connection using kernel PPP and it worked fine. > >But I cannot telnet to myself by saying: > >telnet mydomain.com > >But > >telnet 127.0.0.1 > >works. Does anyone have an explanation. > >Please also send a copy to me as I am not on the mailing list. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > ---------------------------------------------------- Mark Castillo Systems Integration Engineer markc@relationships.com http://www.relationships.com ---------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message