From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 21 21:30:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA11242 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 21:30:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ouray.cudenver.edu (ouray.cudenver.edu [132.194.10.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA11236 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 21:30:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from baram@mscd.edu) Received: from dialinl3-0.cudenver.edu (dialinl3-0.cudenver.edu [132.194.10.190]) by ouray.cudenver.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA28840; Mon, 21 Sep 1998 22:36:04 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 22:32:26 -0600 (MDT) From: baram X-Sender: baram@sura.dyn.ml.org To: Stormy Henderson cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hostname question In-Reply-To: <19980921230010.A5617@futuresouth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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