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From: paolo@paolo.com (Paolo Hutchison)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help! Need an etc/hosts file.
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 03:59:18 GMT
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here's the content of my hosts file:

127.0.0.1               localhost.iofr.com localhost
192.168.0.11            alien.iofr.com alien
192.168.0.11            alien.iofr.com.

hope this helps!

-paolo
paolo@paolo.com

krb@xx.acs.appstate.edu (Kinney Baughman) wrote:

>Sigh...
>
>Instead of commenting out the line in /etc/hosts that said something like:
>
>127.10.0.0    myname.name.host
>
>I deleted it and inserted the IP address and domain name for my computer.
>
>Why? You ask.
>
>Because I'm stupid!!  That's why.  ;-)
>
>For the life of my I don't know why I didn't comment it out as I usually
>do until I check to see what effect it might have.
>
>So now I'm off the network.  I can't log in remotely and can't telnet or 
>lynx out.
>
>I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.6-Release.  
>
>If someone could post or email me a copy of their /etc/hosts file, I'd be 
>most thankful.
>
>Sheepishly,
>
>Kinney Baughman