From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 14 14:33:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.vnet.net (smtp1.vnet.net [166.82.1.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C04DE14CAC for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:33:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by smtp1.vnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA19307; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:32:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA00540; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:31:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.9.2/8.6.9) id RAA00979; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:31:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:31:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199904142131.RAA00979@lakes.dignus.com> To: mbermal@ucsd.edu Subject: Re: Linux host config Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Mark Bermal wrote: > I have been having problems with some linux programs that use the > network (real player and quake). I think it is due to the fact that the > host.conf and hosts files are written differently under linux. Does anyone > know the correct syntax for these files under linux (the ones under > /usr/compat/linux/etc). I just did a quick check - looking at a 3.1 /compat/linux/etc and a RedHat 5.2 /etc. Because I've noticed that RealPlayer doesn't seem to work well also (claims the site is inaccessible, when running on Windows it works fine - from the same physical subnet, going through the same FreeBSD NATD gateway.) The RedHat /etc/host.conf looks like: order hosts,bind multi on while the FreeBSD /compat/linux/etc/host.conf looks like: order hosts, bind multi on The only real difference is the space after the comma (maybe there's a bug in the Linux libraries somewhere, and that space shouldn't be there?) As far as /etc/host - that seems to be the typical format. A FreeBSD one should work fine. - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message