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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!chilton!chris From: chris@vindaloo.com (Christopher Sean Hilton) Subject: Re: EMACS and FreeBSD 2.1-SNAP ... (funny) Organization: Vindaloo communications Message-ID: <1995Sep25.204958.5323@vindaloo.com> References: <4410av$kmf@nntp.interaccess.com> <1995Sep24.014611.13292@vindaloo.com> <DFFMt2.r7@tarush.chattanooga.net> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 95 20:49:58 GMT Lines: 23 In article <DFFMt2.r7@tarush.chattanooga.net>, Tom Rush <tom@tarush.chattanooga.net> wrote: >You may be thinking of /etc/host.conf. It comes in the release with >bind first, then hosts; in this case it should be reversed, i.e. : > >hosts >bind > You're right, I looked at the dos again also and then corrected my resolv.conf file. It's been a while. Regardless, the gethostbyname() fails when it cannot lookup the host name and if you have no nameserver configured then you need to look at the hosts file first. This fixed the problem on my machine. Chris -- Note: I'm in the midst of changing mail handlers for vindaloo.com, During this time some mail may bounce. Please keep trying. If it's urgent