Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 19:54:43 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freebsd.org> To: JOHN <JSINNOTT@POMONA.EDU> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yet Another Question (tcp-ip services) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960103194952.6199l-100000@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM> In-Reply-To: <01HZKRGR2B368WWSBQ@POMONA.EDU>
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On Wed, 3 Jan 1996, JOHN wrote: > to my own machine by either typing > a) telnet machine.domain.edu > b) telnet localhost > c) telnet 127.0.0.1 > edit /etc/host.conf. it lists three methods for converting machine name to ip addresses (and the reverse). the three are: bind the domain name server daemon hosts your /etc/hosts file #nis sun's network information system (nee yellow pages) commented out with a "#" change the order to: hosts bind #nis edit /etc/hosts add information for your machine, like this: 127.0.0.1 Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM localhost 10.0.0.1 aspen 10.0.0.2 kooka 192.216.222.4 freefall.cdrom.com 198.138.38.7 kryten.woc.atinc.com kryten.atinc.com kryten > Finally, as another newbie question, does the MH mail handling system operate > as a replacement for sendmail, or is it an addition to it? mh is a mail reader. sendmail is a mail transfer agent, like your local postman and the rest of the postal service. only faster Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life i am moving to a new job. PLEASE USE: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG
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