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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!207.167.14.9!scanner.worldgate.com!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!tribune.usask.ca!usenet From: jak647@$mail.usask.ca (daftpunk) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Problems setting up 2.2.2 with dynamic ip allocation Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 09:16:46 GMT Organization: University of Saskatchewan Lines: 8 Message-ID: <33cf33d9.4818570@tribune.usask.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: janus1-20.usask.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99g/16.339 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44622 I've followed the directions in the handbook, and have my machine name in the host file like so: 10.0.0.1 my.name.here, but whenever I finger my host by explicitly stating the host name to finger, it checks the dns server and just sits there forever instead of realising it's my machine it should look at. I did have my name next to 127.0.0.1 but that was giving me sendmail problems (mail loops back to me.) Please help.