Re: Computer fails to recognise self - details at 11

2002-12-23 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 23:46, John Hasler wrote: > Derrick writes: > > Yes, ppp will rewrite your resolv.conf... > > Actually, it moves it out of the way and puts it back when the connection > goes down. > > > I don't know if you can tell ppp not to edit [resolv.conf']... > > Run pppconfig and se

Re: Computer fails to recognise self - details at 11

2002-12-23 Thread John Hasler
Derrick writes: > Yes, ppp will rewrite your resolv.conf... Actually, it moves it out of the way and puts it back when the connection goes down. > I don't know if you can tell ppp not to edit [resolv.conf']... Run pppconfig and select 'static' in the 'Configure Nameservers' screen. Your resolv.c

Re: Computer fails to recognise self - details at 11

2002-12-23 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 08:49:25PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: | I have restarted /etc/init.d/networking and /etc/init.d/xinetd, as well | as reloading /etc/init.d/bind, but I haven't gone to the point of the | switch of runlevels, partly because *something* rewrites my | /etc/resolv.conf, and I s

Re: Computer fails to recognise self - details at 11

2002-12-18 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 18:40, Michael Heironimus wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 02:35:35PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > That was the first reboot in five weeks, and when the system came back, > > it couldn't find "localhost". It could find hosehead.dyndns.org and its > > various morphs (hosehea

Re: Computer fails to recognise self - details at 11

2002-12-18 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 17:24, nate wrote: > Mark L. Kahnt said: > > > Just tried each (well, not really the third, as I don't use nscd) and > > "localhost" can now be pinged, but exim and ftp are still not > > responding, meaning fetchmail is still being refused. Interestingly, I can > > dispatch a

Re: Computer fails to recognise self - details at 11

2002-12-18 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 02:35:35PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > That was the first reboot in five weeks, and when the system came back, > it couldn't find "localhost". It could find hosehead.dyndns.org and its > various morphs (hosehead.dyndns.ws and mlkahnt.dyndns.org,) and it had > no problem wi

Re: Computer fails to recognise self - details at 11

2002-12-18 Thread nate
Mark L. Kahnt said: > Just tried each (well, not really the third, as I don't use nscd) and > "localhost" can now be pinged, but exim and ftp are still not > responding, meaning fetchmail is still being refused. Interestingly, I can > dispatch a message to sendmail addressed to kahnt@localhost, an

Re: Computer fails to recognise self - details at 11

2002-12-18 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 14:49, nate wrote: > Mark L. Kahnt said: > > I run Bind 8.3.3 and exim 3.36, along with fetchmail 5.9.11 - I don't > > think I'm considerably different from most others here at something like > > that. Until yesterday morning when Zapping in overlay mode on display :0 > > gumm

Re: Computer fails to recognise self - details at 11

2002-12-18 Thread nate
Mark L. Kahnt said: > I run Bind 8.3.3 and exim 3.36, along with fetchmail 5.9.11 - I don't > think I'm considerably different from most others here at something like > that. Until yesterday morning when Zapping in overlay mode on display :0 > gummed up Railroad Tycoon 2 on display :1, and then suc

Computer fails to recognise self - details at 11

2002-12-18 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
I run Bind 8.3.3 and exim 3.36, along with fetchmail 5.9.11 - I don't think I'm considerably different from most others here at something like that. Until yesterday morning when Zapping in overlay mode on display :0 gummed up Railroad Tycoon 2 on display :1, and then succeeded between them in trash