From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 7 20: 2:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B70B14CA7 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 20:02:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (uucp@localhost) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.9.2/8.9.2/Debian/GNU) with UUCP id PAA13545; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 15:00:42 +1100 (EST) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (central.apana.org.au [203.9.107.245]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA01185; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 08:15:19 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 08:12:58 +1100 (EDT) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: Erik Umenofer Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X11 and networking:Apps don't start when resolv.conf is present In-Reply-To: <36E18504.254195AF@silcom.com> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Erik Umenofer wrote: > When I erase /etc/resolv.conf Quake, Netscape, Icq and other networking > apps load instantly. (but don't work of course since they need ot be > able to resolv hostnames) {...} > How can I make my system not lookup this hostname?? Can't stop it looking up the names, but changing /etc/host.conf to use the /etc/hosts file before DNS for name resolution and then having /etc/hosts contain the needed information should take care of things. -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Fido: Andrew MacIntyre, 3:620/243.18 | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message