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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.hana.nm.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!news.jsums.edu!gatech!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!peer-news.britain.eu.net!keele!news From: Mike Khokhlov <u6b23@keele.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1R: Basic Networking Problems Date: 26 Feb 1996 12:18:28 GMT Lines: 35 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4gs8ek$c8i@gerry.cc.keele.ac.uk> References: <3132166D.46D5@triad.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: ccibmpc10.cc.keele.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2N (Windows; I; 16bit) Hi ! John Gibney <gibney@triad.apana.org.au> wrote: >Hi, all... > >Well, I've managed to install FreeBSD 2.1R, including >XFree86 and I'm learning *heaps* :))) > > ...but... ;) > >...I'm having troubles with some of the name resolving side >of things. > >I'm currently running the system as a stand-alone machine >but I'd like to (initially) be able to send mail between >users on the machine... but mail just gets stuck in the >mail queue, viz: Pardon, I don't undestand do u have a connection to Internet or not ? > 141 v2 IWs+ 0:00.06 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv2 > >Soo... any suggestions on what I need to do! U have two choice : 1 Install a name server on your machine (long variant) 2 Try to see host.conf in /etc dir ... and make sure that u have a word hosts there ... and u can remove bind from there Mike