I think you have to have a real ip address to do with your name -- either a static one to use with ppp, or a dynamic one assigned via ppp -- static is better as you can put it in your host file and then if your machine is not named localhost your problems should be solved. This is my $0.02. On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Janina Sajka wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Ari Moisio wrote: > > > Hmm... would it help if you put something like > > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost. toccata.grg.afb.net. > > > > to /etc/hosts. After this resolver should be able to resolve that name > > to localhost. (Check it with 'host', 'nslookup' will use only bind > > daemon, not entire resolv library.) > > That is what I would expect, but it isn't happening, and I don't know why. > Here's the top of /etc/hosts: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost toccata.grg.afb.net > 127.0.0.1 toccata.grg.afb.net toccata > > And here's the output of nslookup toccata.grg.afb.net: > > Server: 127.0.0.1 > Address: 127.0.0.1#53 > > ** server can't find toccata.grg.afb.net.: NXDOMAIN > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
