From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 6:34:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.cybersurf.net (smtp2.cybersurf.net [209.197.145.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 054B437B400 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 06:34:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from [209.197.156.249] ([209.197.156.249]) by smtp2.cybersurf.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id G4SJ5O00.C6X for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 07:34:36 -0700 From: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:52:57 mst7mst MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: DNS problems Reply-To: 01031149@3web.net X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.50 Message-Id: <20001129143439.054B437B400@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 28 Nov 00 at 16:24, Dima Dorfman wrote: >Duke Normandin wrote: >> Just lurking & learning.....;) >> >> Seems that I'm having a similar problem, I think. With "w" and "who" show >> nothing in the FROM field except when I ftp/telnet from my win9x box I >> see mandy or 10.0.0.2 in there. Is this correct behavior? > >When you're logged in from a local terminal, the host field is empty. >This is correct behavior. It'd be redundant to put 'localhost' in >there since that's the only possible value if you're on a local >terminal. doh....I didn't see the forest for the trees! ;) [snip] >> /etc/resolv.conf is empty - I think that this is correct. > >If you're using DNS, it shouldn't be empty. See resolver(5) for details. > My 3.3R box is networked to a win95 one -- but has no access to the Internet. Should I at least have domain 127.0.0.1 in it? Seems like I read something to that effect while I was searching the FreeBSD mailing lists today. Later.... -duke Calgary,Alberta, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message