Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 18:20:14 -0600 From: Thomas Mitchell Shaw III <zeidaot@l1.conline.com> To: "'questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "'questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Problems figuring out my etc hosts. Message-ID: <01BB1CD3.50D47A40@dal1-13.conline.com>
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Im running FreeBSD 2.1 CD Release, I do a cd install, I install the package using the novice install at which point it ask me to do a net config which asks me to fill in my computers name "zeid" and my domain name "conline.com" at which point my /etc/hosts looks like this. 127.0.0.1 localhost.conline.com localhost 204.96.7.67 zeid.conline.com zeid Which is probably correct but, Im not certain due to the fact that when the system boots up with this /etc/hosts file, the sendmail daemon process halts during the bootup process, and I have to ctrl-c to continue the bootup process. And the user process PPPD Written by Toshiharu Ohno will not start with this hosts file. And my simple pppd/chat login to my isp scripts fails miserably, I call up and can't even ping my provider. So the default /etc/hosts dosn't work.. I was told how to fix this problem to edit my hosts file to look like this. 127.0.0.1 localhost zeid.conline.com At which point the bootup process works, it boots up normally, and the user process pppd by Ohno actually starts and works great. And my pppd/chat login script works great. But when I start my Apache 1.0.3 server and then start Netscape v2.0 and try to http://zeid.conline.com to look at my own web page it tells me cannot find "zeid.conline.com" :( I have to http:// to my own ip address which changes every time I dial in. Also when I try to run Satan-1.1.1, I always get the error cannot find localhost:1026 and I know it's the /etc/host file thats screwing things up. But atleast I can connect to the Internet 2 different ways, with the user-mode ppp, and the kernel pppd. I e-mailed Wietse Venema to ask him if he had a quick fix for the "cannot find localhost:1026" error satan give's me, and this is what he said of my "hosts" file thats works, "Such a setup makes sense only for a machine that is not attached to a network". hehe Does anybody have any idea's ?? Any suggestons would help thanks :) Thanks zeid zeidaot@conline.com
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