Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 22:32:26 -0600 (MDT) From: baram <baram@mscd.edu> To: Stormy Henderson <stormy@futuresouth.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hostname question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.04.9809212231440.4146-100000@sura.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <19980921230010.A5617@futuresouth.com>
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On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Stormy Henderson wrote: > A happy camper (qed, baram@mscd.edu) once wrote... > > Hi, i have defined the hostname for my machine in /etc/hosts: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost blah.org > > and /etc/host.conf looks like > > hosts > > bind > > but all lookups for blah.org go out on the network, which causes quite > > You need your machine name in there too, not just the domain. umm, ok.. seems the ordered mattered.. 127.0.0.1 fqdn.blah.org localhost worked thanks:) > > Be happy... > -- > http://www.futuresouth.com/~stormy/signature.html > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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