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From: erbe0011@rz03.FH-Karlsruhe.DE (Bernd Ernesti)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: NetBSD-Amiga /etc/netstart query
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Date: 30 Jul 1996 16:23:16 GMT
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AS (astaude@silas.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote:
: The original netstart file contains the lines 
: "ifconfig lo0 inet localhost"
: to configure the loopback device and
: "route add $hostname localhost"
: to modify the route tables.
: The problem is my machine seems to stall on these particular lines. When I
: change them to IP addresses (127.0.0.1), then everything is okay.
: I have set up the DNS, but named is started until later.
: "localhost" is also in /etc/hosts
: What gives???? Any ideas???

man resolv.conf and then add an
lookup file bind
to /etc/resolv.conf

Bernd