From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 21 21:01:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA07099 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 21:01:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rain.futuresouth.com (rain.futuresouth.com [198.79.79.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA07081 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 21:00:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stormy@rain.futuresouth.com) Received: (from stormy@localhost) by rain.futuresouth.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id XAA07723 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 23:00:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from stormy) Message-ID: <19980921230010.A5617@futuresouth.com> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 23:00:10 -0500 From: Stormy Henderson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hostname question Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from qed on Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 09:34:12PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A happy camper (qed, baram@mscd.edu) once wrote... > 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 You need your machine name in there too, not just the domain. Be happy... -- http://www.futuresouth.com/~stormy/signature.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message