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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!newsserv.cs.uni-magdeburg.de!dali.cs.uni-magdeburg.de!jesse From: jesse@csmd.cs.UNI-Magdeburg.DE (Roland Jesse) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Network problem on FreeBSD 2.1 ? Date: 18 Dec 1995 12:52:00 GMT Organization: Univ. of Magdeburg, CS Dept, Germany Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4b3o5g$1kt@dali.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> References: <4alc7t$mkv@karri.bs.wa.gov.au> <4anrmv$1j5@parody.tecc.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: csmd34.cs.uni-magdeburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] James Raynard wrote: > At a guess, the hostnames are in /etc/hosts but the machine tries to > get them from a nameserver first. > Change /etc/hosts.conf to read > hosts > bind > in that order (with the obvious change if you run NIS). This will make > sure that /etc/hosts is checked before the nameserver. And what to do when trying to run NIS but NIS - server seams not to be in a so called 'mode access list' ? Are /etc/host* and this list the same ? > James Roland -- Roland (rj,-) Jesse, stud.rer.nat. et phil. URL: http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~jesse/ E-Mail: jesse@csmd.cs.uni-magdeburg.de - pgp encrypted mail preferred -