Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 17:15:03 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher J. Booth" <cbooth@aixx.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: /etc/host file? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003021702160.1419-100000@localhost.localdomain>
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Hi, FreeBSDers: I have recently installed FreeBSD 3.4 on a new PC. I have been trying to dial out to my ISP to get email, Web browse, read newsgroups, and so on. I am able to dial out and connect, and can communicate with the ISP's servers. The problem is that my connection will stall. The only way I am able to renew the connection with the mail or news servers or with the internet is to redial. The length of time that my connection works is quite variable. I have swapped in another modem, and the same thing happened, so I think that I have pretty well eliminated a hardware problem. Neither modem is a winmodem. My dialup account is a dynamic PPP account. I am dialing in to an ISP in New York City using local New Jersey access numbers. The embarassing thing here is that when I dial in from the Windows 98 partition the connection is fine. I don't have the same problem using Internet Explorer or Outlook Express. This is what my /etc/host file looks like. 127.0.0.1 localhost camelot. Can anyone suggest what where I might look to solve this inconvenience? Thank you. Christopher J. Booth cbooth@aixx.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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