Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:46:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: "Rommel B. Ikeda" <r_ikeda@i-international.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NOQUEUE: SYSERR (root): host "localhost" unknown ? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0401151143150.6457@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <1074165350.24553.9.camel@IBM-R40e.i-international.org> References: <20040114040832.6951.qmail@webmail-2-1.secureserver.net> <20040114081817.GA74603@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <1074165350.24553.9.camel@IBM-R40e.i-international.org>
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On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Rommel B. Ikeda wrote: > Thank you very much for the reply... > This was what was in my /etc/hosts before your response... > > ::1 IBM-R40e IBM-R40e@point.ne.jp > 127.0.0.1 IBM-R40e IBM-R40e@point.ne.jp > 192.168.1.35 IBM-R40e IBM-R40e@point.ne.jp > > This is my new /etc/hosts now: > ::1 localhost > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 10.0.0.1 IBM-R40e@point.ne.jp Domain names should not contain "@" characters. > I had to supply 10.0.0.1 IBM-R40e@point.ne.jp because Gnome 2 complains > that it can not find it...So, I just invented it...I hope that it is > right... > One thing I do not I understand is that when I do: > %host localhost. > It will be give a "Host not found" response...But, my system is working > fine...What do you think is wrong with it... The "host" command doesn't use the full resolver; it uses DNS queries only. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Theory and practice _are_ the same thing. In theory.
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