On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 15:29 , Marc van Woerkom exclaimed "Las Cucarachas entran, Pero no puede en salir", and then rambled on saying with: > My machine is connected to the internet via an ISDN modem, using kernel > ppp and i4b. > If the link is up, it resolves symbolic names by asking some > nameserver. > If the link is down, it should just use /etc/hosts to > resolve "localhost" and the name of the second computer > attached to it by an ethernet link.
> My problem is that if the ISDN link is down, even > a lookup of "localhost" doesn't work. > What do you recommend as configuration settings? > I seem to get stuck. Is the order in you /etc/host.conf file set to hosts bind Are the names in you /etc/hosts file correct. IP first then FQDN followed by short name. You didn't give details that they are this way. -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
