On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 11:59:31AM +0000, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > I played around with my /etc/resolve, /etc/hosts, and /etc/hostname. > And now, the function gethostbyname() returns > NULL. > This seriously broke up all of my programs. I am connected in a LAN > with a given ip address using ethernet. > > At a moment: my /etc/resolve.conf has nameserver 127.0.0.1 '/etc/resolv.conf search nameserver 127.0.0.1 # localhost nameserver 194.25.46.4 # provider 1. IP nameserver 194.25.0.125 # provider 2. IP
> /etc/hostname has localhost and /etc/hosts has 127.0.0.1 localhost /etc/hostname pmurmel # my linuxbox name figure out with `uname -n` /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost # localhost 192.168.1.1 pmurmel.pberlau.users.muenster.de pmurmel # "full name" of my box and name 10.0.0.1 local_ptp.pberlau.users.muenster.de local_ptp # for ip - connection 10.0.0.2 remote_ptp.pberlau.users.muenster.de remote_ptp # remote ip 192.168.1.2 amurmel.pberlau.users.muenster.de amurmel # the name of the box from Adelheid is ... amurmel Hope this helps a little, cu Peter -- Peter Berlau [EMAIL PROTECTED]
