From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 30 7: 6:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tyr.internal (node-d8e93fd2.powerinter.net [216.233.63.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1DE9637B479 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 07:06:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 10697 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2000 15:08:44 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO tyr.internal) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 30 Oct 2000 15:08:44 -0000 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:08:43 -0600 (CST) From: jmelesky@dynamictrade.com Subject: Re: Relay section needs appending To: jpersinger@greenmachine.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: <20001030150612.1DE9637B479@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > That was the file.....It contained: 'man hosts': The hosts file contains information regarding the known hosts on the net- work. For each host a single line should be present with the following information: Internet address official host name aliases > 63.174.216.138 jpersinger.greenmachine.net jpersinger That is the IP address of your machine, the official (full) name of the machine, then a single alias. In order to set up a local network, you need to make sure that all of the machines on the network exist in that /etc/hosts file, and that each machine has a complete copy of the /etc/hosts file. -johnnnnnnn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message