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Date:      Wed, 06 Dec 2000 23:03:57 -0500
From:      Raymond Law <rlaw@vt.edu>
To:        Nick Slager <nicks@albury.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DNS server
Message-ID:  <3.0.1.32.20001206230357.0069d758@mail.vt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20001207144622.B74591@albury.net.au>
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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."
>
>
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