From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 6 19:54:24 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 19:54:21 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu (lennier.cc.vt.edu [198.82.161.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6953B37B400 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 19:54:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.vt.edu (gkar.cc.vt.edu [198.82.161.190]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eB73s6B35658; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 22:54:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from flaw ([198.82.82.163]) by gkar.cc.vt.edu (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with SMTP id <0G5600GFFIU4J4@gkar.cc.vt.edu>; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 22:54:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 23:03:57 -0500 From: Raymond Law Subject: Re: DNS server In-reply-to: <20001207144622.B74591@albury.net.au> X-Sender: flaw@mail.vt.edu To: Nick Slager Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3.0.1.32.20001206230357.0069d758@mail.vt.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <3.0.1.32.20001206212048.006e3ed0@mail.vt.edu> <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> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That's what's frustrating. It doesn't work either I have that hostname/IP entry in /etc/hosts or not when I am at school. Thanks. Ray, At 02:46 PM 12/7/00 +1100, Nick Slager wrote: >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message