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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!fu-berlin.de!fub!kwcom1.in-berlin.de!kwcom.in-berlin.de!matthaei From: matthaei@kwcom.in-berlin.de (Olaf Matthaei) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Pinging myself Date: 12 Aug 1995 10:28:42 +0200 Organization: Public access FreeBSD system, 15711 Koenigs Wusterhausen, DE Lines: 11 Message-ID: <40honq$5np@kwcom.in-berlin.de> References: <808168572snz@beckley.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: kwcom.in-berlin.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Ian W Taylor (iwta@beckley.demon.co.uk) wrote: : Having just installed FreeBSD 2.0.5, I thought that I would : check my installation before conecting to my ISP via PPP. : I can 'ping localhost' successfully but any attempt to : 'ping beckley' or 'ping beckley.demon.co.uk' gets no : reply. : Any idea what I am doing wrong ???? Have a lock at /etc/hosts.