Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 14:46:22 +1100 From: Nick Slager <nicks@albury.net.au> To: Raymond Law <rlaw@vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS server Message-ID: <20001207144622.B74591@albury.net.au> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.20001206212048.006e3ed0@mail.vt.edu>; from rlaw@vt.edu on Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:20:48PM -0500 References: <3.0.1.32.20001206174404.006d3cf8@mail.vt.edu> <3.0.1.32.20001206174404.006d3cf8@mail.vt.edu> <20001207094110.B40394@albury.net.au> <3.0.1.32.20001206175433.006da248@mail.vt.edu> <20001207094939.C40394@albury.net.au> <3.0.1.32.20001206180822.006e4800@mail.vt.edu> <20001207100819.D40394@albury.net.au> <3.0.1.32.20001206183449.006a760c@mail.vt.edu> <20001207104546.F40394@albury.net.au> <3.0.1.32.20001206212048.006e3ed0@mail.vt.edu>
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Thus spake Raymond Law (rlaw@vt.edu): > The problem I described did not happen when I just installed FreeBSD in > school. When I went back home working offline and tried to open KDE, it > gives error because gethostbyaddr() or some other related sys call (don't > remember exactly) fails when KDE starts. I then manually added a > hostname/IP entry in hosts. Everything works fine at home. However, the > problem arises when I come back to school and connect it to the network. > > Any idea what might went wrong? I appreciate your help very much. If you remove the hostname entry in /etc/hosts when at school, does it work? Nick -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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