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Date:      Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:15:42 -0600
From:      "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net>
To:        "Mark Castillo - webFreaks.com" <phineas@webfreaks.com>, goldfish@value.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Unable to Telnet to myself
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19980223161542.0081c210@midwest.net>
In-Reply-To: <19980223200714.AAA3224@webfreak>
References:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.980223113125.20464A-100000@value.net>

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At 12:07 PM 2/23/98 +0000, Mark Castillo - webFreaks.com wrote:
>In /etc/resolv.conf, you probably have your ISP's DNS servers listed.  When
>their server looks up "mydomain.com", it fails (since I doubt you have
>"mydomain.com" registered).  Also, in your /etc/host.conf file, the order
>of resolving takes effect.
>usually the order is bind, hosts. Change this to hosts, bind.  This tells
>your machine to check your hosts file, before trying to resolve names via
DNS.

How can you change the resolve order?

>
>
>At 11:38 AM 2/23/98 -0800, you wrote:
>>I set up the ISP connection using kernel PPP and it worked fine.
>>
>>But I cannot telnet to myself by saying:
>>
>>telnet mydomain.com
>>

>

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