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From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To: J <j@lumiere-cc.com>
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Subject: Re: wrong networks?
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On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, J wrote:
> lo0   16384 your-net      localhost.v-sit     3135     0     3135     0 0
> 
> The thing I'm particularly noticing is the localhost.v-sit, which is short
> for localhost.v-site.net. However, my machine's domain name is
> lumiere-cc.com, hostname leaf. Our access is provided through v-site.net.

My guess is that you use your providers name servers and your
/etc/host.conf is stock, i.e.
bind
hosts

Change the order in /etc/host.conf to
hosts
bind

and make sure to update the entry for 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts

Dan
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