From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 9 16:51:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA16494 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 16:51:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA16487 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 16:51:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA18066; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 16:51:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 16:51:22 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Dhiraj Soni cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Localhost Confiuration Problem In-Reply-To: <3640EE06.912CF5E0@uswest.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 Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Dhiraj Soni wrote: > I am having this typical problem. My local host shows the fully > qualified domain name: > localhost.mn.uswest.net which is my ISP's domain!! Which resolves to: 127.0.0.1 which is rerouted internally by the system. Such a name is perfectly normal and is in fact recommended by most DNS books. If you want 'localhost' to be an alias to it edit /etc/hosts as appropriate. > So any call to localhost fails as it goes to ISP's machine. Wrong. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message