Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 23:46:36 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Alexander Werner Skwar <askwar@DigitalProjects.com> Cc: Lanny Baron <lnb@freebsdsystems.com>, Janis <janisd@optonline.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cant get a Hostname Message-ID: <20000426234636.B19117@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <20000426182745.B9692@gartenfrucht.DigitalProjects.com>; from askwar@DigitalProjects.com on Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 06:27:45PM %2B0200 References: <008901bfae87$771becc0$67febd18@janisd> <XFMail.000425013246.lnb@freebsdsystems.com> <20000426182745.B9692@gartenfrucht.DigitalProjects.com>
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On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 06:27:45PM +0200, Alexander Werner Skwar wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 01:32:46AM -0400, Lanny Baron wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I forgot to ask, are you on the @home.com network? But one person that answered
> > you is also correct in checking your /etc/hosts and make sure you have your
> > network stuff there. For example in my /etc/hosts this box is:
> >
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost.freebsdsystems.com localhost
> > 24.69.168.6 satan.freebsdsystems.com satan
> > 24.69.168.6 satan.freebsdsystems.com.
> >
> > And in /etc/resolv.conf:
> >
> > domain freebsdsystems.com
> > nameserver 127.0.0.1
> > nameserver 216.126.88.51
> > nameserver 216.126.95.33
>
> Hmm? Isn't that a little bit to much in /etc/hosts? Either the 2nd or
> the 3rd line is repetitve; if you have satan.freebsdsystems.com satan in
> there, that translates to:
>
> satan.freebsdsystems.com.satan.freebsdsystems.com and
> satan.freebsdsystems.com
>
> the 3rd line just says satan.freebsdsystems.com. Sure, there's nothing
> wrong with mentioning a name multiple times, but you may either take out
> 'satan' or 'satan.freebsdsystems.com.'. And if there's no
> 'satan.freebsdsystems.com.satan.freebsdsystems.com', you might as well
> remove 'satan.freebsdsystems.com', so that your /etc/hosts file just
> reads:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.
> 24.69.168.6 satan
Errr, um. You need to have a look at hosts(5). This line,
24.69.168.6 satan.freebsdsystems.com satan
Is correct. From the manpage,
DESCRIPTION
The hosts file contains information regarding the known hosts on the net-
work. For each host a single line should be present with the following
information:
Internet address
official host name
aliases
Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters.
If one were to enter,
24.69.168.6 satan
The address "satan.freebsdsystems.com" will not resolve using the
hosts file.
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
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