/etc/hosts contents

[francisco roque]

> I seem to recall dim memories of another file where that might
> be useful, too, but I can't think of it.  Somebody else might.
> Maybe that's not on BSD.  Hmmm.

You may be thinking of /etc/nsswitch.conf or /etc/inet/ipnodes on other 
OS's, or of /etc/resolv.conf.tail on OpenBSD.  On OpenBSD, modifying 
/etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf should suffice. /etc/resolv.conf.tail may 
be necessary to force parameters if you use dhcp a lot (see resolv.conf(5) 
for more info).

To the OP: IIRC /etc/hosts is set up at install time with entries for 
localhost and for the hostname, domain and/or ip that is entered, so 
take the default that Peter linked to and substitute "my.domain" for your 
domain name (or leave as is if you don't have one) and "noname" for your 
hostname.  If you continue to have problems, please post your
/etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts files.

Good luck,

-f
http://www.blackant.net/

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