On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 22:07 +0200, Timur Aydin wrote: > Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't have a full DNS server for my domain. Each computer on my > > network has a copy of the same /etc/hosts file. Is there some way I can > > make it use that for DNS lookups locally? > > Having the exact same copy on each system does not sound > correct. There should be a "localhost" alias in each /etc/hosts and it > should point to the IP address of the relevant machine. > > -- > Timur Aydin
Yeah. Each one has an entry that says 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost and then it has an entry consisting of 192.168.1.? name.espersunited.com name -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list