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From: thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de (Axel Thimm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IP addresses conflict
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 23:02:25 GMT
Organization: FU Berlin, Fachbereich Physik, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik
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axl@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Axel Thimm) wrote:

>I have two IP addresses that do not equal, as they should in my
>PC. The PC has a network card, modem, but no such entries in the KERNEL
>config file (intentionally removed).

The entry needed is in /etc/sysconfig about the name of the hostname

>Only the loopback pseude device is attached. Its address is 127.0.0.1,
>and is the only AF_INET device reported via some sockets functions, yet
>another function gives 10.0.0.2 as some global (?) IP address. The
>latter address comes from my /etc/hosts file:
>127.0.0.1		localhost

>10.0.0.2		prospero 
This is the bad line, it should read 127.0.0.1 propero

>130.133.3.244		titania.physik.fu-berlin.de	titania

Many thanks to Thomas Graichen, who pointed this out to me.
--
Axel Thimm <thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Freie Univ. Berlin, Fachbereich Physik, Inst. fuer Theor. Physik
Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin, Raum 0.4.08, Tel: 838-4774