From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 23 14:06:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA23254 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:06:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cplkagan.globaleyes.net (cplkagan.midwest.net [204.248.41.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA23142 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:05:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from parrothd@midwest.net) Received: from parrothd.houselan.net (parrothd [10.10.0.10]) by cplkagan.globaleyes.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA10805; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:05:35 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980223161542.0081c210@midwest.net> X-Sender: parrothd@midwest.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:15:42 -0600 To: "Mark Castillo - webFreaks.com" , goldfish@value.net From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" Subject: Re: Unable to Telnet to myself Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980223200714.AAA3224@webfreak> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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