My default hosts file which came from the Slackware 7.1 distro contains a very interesting comment which might be causing some of your problems. Let me attach my hosts file into this message including the original comments. I do not name my machine on the 127.0.0.1 (loop back) address. I put my machine name on the network address (192.168.1.1 in this case. ------ hosts file ------- # # hosts This file describes a number of hostname-to-address # mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem. It is mostly # used at boot time, when no name servers are running. # On small systems, this file can be used instead of a # "named" name server. Just add the names, addresses # and any aliases to this file... # # By the way, Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra at nvg.unit.no> says that 127.0.0.1 # should NEVER be named with the name of the machine. It causes problems # for some (stupid) programs, irc and reputedly talk. :^) # # For loopbacking. 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1 lnx1.holmesgrown.com lnx1 192.168.1.2 steve.holmesgrown.com steve 192.168.1.3 winme1.holmesgrown.com winme1 192.168.1.4 lnx2.holmesgrown.com lnx2 # End of hosts. 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 >
