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Subject: Re: Configure my server names... (fwd)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980818145211.13374A-100000@outpost.nada.org> from Spidey at "Aug 18, 98 03:05:38 pm"
To: beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 09:19:58 -1000 (HST)
Cc: brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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Spidey
>Okay... there's been little confusion here...
>
>All I want to do is to be able to browse my own http server, with its
>name,  even if I'm not connected to any network. Is that possible?

The siplest way to do that would be:

In /etc/host.config:

hosts
bind

In /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1	outreach.nada.org nada localhost


-David Langford

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