Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 17:07:44 -0700 (PDT) From: bmk@dtr.com To: rjbproc@Vir.com (Robert Burns) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iijppp auto & pine (fwd) Message-ID: <199508050007.RAA09355@everest> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950804194240.321A-100000@zeta> from "Robert Burns" at Aug 4, 95 07:43:37 pm
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> On Fri, 4 Aug 1995, Mike O'Brien wrote: > > I have found that any reference to "localhost" causes a DNS lookup, > > if "resolv.conf" is in place. Maybe this is what you're seeing. > > > > > Mike, > Thanks for your response. > When I remove resolv.conf the problem goes away but causes DNS lookup > failures if I try to ftp to a remote site for instance. Any Ideas on how > to get around this? My resolv.conf file is set up as follows: > domain vir.com <---- my ISP > nameserver 199.84.154.65 <---- another DNS address > nameserver 199.202.197.65 <---- his address Check to see if your /etc/host.conf lists 'bind' before 'hosts'. If it does, switch them. Make sure localhost is listed in your /etc/hosts file. Of course, you'll want to put resolv.conf back the way it was. :) Another workable solution might be to run a caching nameserver on your machine.
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