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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Connecting to local host (not localhost, though) Date: 13 Jul 1997 17:47:29 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5qb4bh$gfr@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5q66s3$i3o@news.interlog.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44384 Patrick McConnell <patrick@patrick.interlog.com> wrote: > I use FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE and a dial-up Internet connection. When the > machine is not connected, I can connect to the host using its hostname, > which is "patrick". But when I dial in, it won't let me. Add the line add MYADDR 127.0.0.1 to your ppp.linkup. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)