From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 4 17:02:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA16413 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 17:02:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from argate.com (calhoun1-691.resnet.drexel.edu [144.118.229.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA16404 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 17:02:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andriss@argate.com) Received: from localhost (andriss@localhost) by argate.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id UAA27256; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 20:02:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 20:02:04 -0500 (EST) From: Andriss To: Dhiraj Soni cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Localhost Confiuration Problem In-Reply-To: <3640EE06.912CF5E0@uswest.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Hi, > >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!! > >So any call to localhost fails as it goes to ISP's machine. > did you try to nslookup this dns? Name: localhost.mn.uswest.net Address: 127.0.0.1 Interesting, isn't it? Now, why would that not work? Check if your /etc/hosts contains something like 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost Andriss ________________________________________ Andriss@ArGate.com http://ArGate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message