From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 03:48:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC01316A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 03:48:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0892743D2F for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 03:48:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:47:41 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 1Ah5xX-0006Wl-00; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:46:47 +0000 Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:46:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: "Rommel B. Ikeda" In-Reply-To: <1074165350.24553.9.camel@IBM-R40e.i-international.org> Message-ID: 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: Jan Grant cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NOQUEUE: SYSERR (root): host "localhost" unknown ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:48:16 -0000 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.