From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 21 20:33:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA03008 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 20:33:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from clem.mscd.edu (clem.mscd.edu [147.153.1.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA02966 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 20:33:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from baram@mscd.edu) Received: from localhost by clem.mscd.edu (PMDF V5.1-10 #D3122) with SMTP id <0EZO00M011X02H@clem.mscd.edu> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 21:34:12 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 21:34:12 -0600 (MDT) From: qed Subject: hostname question To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, i have defined the hostname for my machine in /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost blah.org and /etc/host.conf looks like hosts bind but all lookups for blah.org go out on the network, which causes quite a delay on startup for emacs and pine when im offline... Where should that hostname be defined? thanks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message