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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!gatech!csulb.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!news-xfer.netaxs.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news1.best.com!nntp1.ba.best.com!nntp2.ba.best.com!not-for-mail 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 Organization: Ideas of Reference Lines: 40 Message-ID: <3304e2c4.16333155@Server> References: <5e0dg5$cgi@lester.appstate.edu> Reply-To: paolo@paolo.com NNTP-Posting-Host: iofr.vip.best.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99g/32.339 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35563 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