From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jun 21 23:49:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.18.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F38D37BDC4 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 23:49:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Received: from moritz.alleswirdgelber (ascend-tk-p228.dialin.uni-bonn.de [131.220.244.228]) by f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA60370 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:47:47 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moritz.alleswirdgelber (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA00343 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:07:40 GMT (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:07:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Heiko Recktenwald X-Sender: uzs106@moritz.alleswirdgelber To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: /etc/hosts Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wanted to tell you about the strange things, that can happen when you forget the hostname etc next to localhost in /etc/host, tin didnt work anymore, had to put the domain "invalid" into /etc/resolv.conf, but on the live filesystem in FBSD 4.0 Cd 2, I see something, that I had overlooked before and cant find in man hosts: # This file should contain the addresses and aliases # for local hosts that share this file. # # 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain myname.my.domain Well, this is important: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Dont know what this is good for: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Anyway: ::1 localhost localhost.my.domain myname.my.domain ^^^ What is this ??? "::1", never seen it, is it DNS Syntax ? H. PS.: I have dynamic IP... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message