Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 20:02:04 -0500 (EST) From: Andriss <andriss@argate.com> To: Dhiraj Soni <dsoni@uswest.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Localhost Confiuration Problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981104195935.25132A-100000@argate.com> In-Reply-To: <3640EE06.912CF5E0@uswest.com>
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>Hi, > >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!! > >So any call to localhost fails as it goes to ISP's machine. > did you try to nslookup this dns? Name: localhost.mn.uswest.net Address: 127.0.0.1 Interesting, isn't it? Now, why would that not work? Check if your /etc/hosts contains something like 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost Andriss ________________________________________ Andriss@ArGate.com http://ArGate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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