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Date:      Mon, 21 Sep 1998 23:00:10 -0500
From:      Stormy Henderson <stormy@futuresouth.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hostname question
Message-ID:  <19980921230010.A5617@futuresouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.980921213000.24566A-100000@clem.mscd.edu>; from qed on Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 09:34:12PM -0600
References:  <Pine.OSF.3.95.980921213000.24566A-100000@clem.mscd.edu>

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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...
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