From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jun 18 16:56:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA10664 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:56:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from grover.jpl.nasa.gov (grover.jpl.nasa.gov [128.149.29.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA10632 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:55:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@kalessin.jpl.nasa.gov) Received: from kalessin.jpl.nasa.gov (kalessin [128.149.29.97]) by grover.jpl.nasa.gov (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA26027 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:55:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sam@localhost) by kalessin.jpl.nasa.gov (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA11679; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:55:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:55:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806182355.QAA11679@kalessin.jpl.nasa.gov> From: Sam Sirlin To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: manual re hosts? Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I see: http://www.freebsd.com/handbook/handbook204.html... 5.1.4.2. Edit the /etc/hosts(5) file This file should contain the IP addresses and names of machines on your network. At a bare minimum it should contain entries for the machine which will be running ppp. Assuming that your machine is called foo.bar.com with the IP address 10.0.0.1, /etc/hosts should contain: 127.0.0.1 localhost 10.0.0.1 foo.bar.com foo ... I tried this with 2.2.2, with a dialup ppp connection. If hosts is first in host.conf, this causes startup of some things to be very slow (emacs) if you're not connected to the net. I notice that picobsd uses 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 foo.bar.com foo which works much better for me. Sam Sirlin Email: sam@kalessin.jpl.nasa.gov To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message