Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:15:42 -0600 From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net> To: "Mark Castillo - webFreaks.com" <phineas@webfreaks.com>, goldfish@value.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unable to Telnet to myself Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980223161542.0081c210@midwest.net> In-Reply-To: <19980223200714.AAA3224@webfreak> References: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980223113125.20464A-100000@value.net>
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At 12:07 PM 2/23/98 +0000, Mark Castillo - webFreaks.com wrote: >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. How can you change the resolve order? > > >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 >> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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