Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 16:51:22 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Dhiraj Soni <dsoni@uswest.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Localhost Confiuration Problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811091650000.3471-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3640EE06.912CF5E0@uswest.com>
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On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Dhiraj Soni wrote: > I am having this typical problem. My local host shows the fully > qualified domain name: > localhost.mn.uswest.net which is my ISP's domain!! Which resolves to: 127.0.0.1 which is rerouted internally by the system. Such a name is perfectly normal and is in fact recommended by most DNS books. If you want 'localhost' to be an alias to it edit /etc/hosts as appropriate. > So any call to localhost fails as it goes to ISP's machine. Wrong. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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