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- From: samuel@cs.ubc.ca (Stephen Samuel)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: Argh! localhost is unknown host
- Date: 11 Dec 1992 14:21:23 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- Message-ID: <1gb493INN5j@chaplin.cs.ubc.ca>
- References: <1fe1rmINNc3n@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Dec1.152423.22773@Princeton.EDU> <13912@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: chaplin.cs.ubc.ca
-
- tpm@ecs (TP Monks) writes:
-
- >subbarao@fc.hp.com (Kartik Subbarao) writes:
-
- >>>One of our SGIs (an Indigo) is trying to run Quanta which uses
- >>>the remote shell for some things. When trying to use it, we get
- >>>a localhost unknown host error. /usr/bsd is before /bin in the
- >>>path so it is finding the remote shell, not the restricted shell.
- >>>Even though localhost is in /etc/hosts as 127.0.0.1 (as it is
- >>>supposed to be), I can't even ping localhost.
-
- >>Strange. Do do you have hostresorder set in /usr/etc/resolv.conf? If so, does
- >>it mention 'local'? If not, then the resolver won't even look at
- >>/etc/hosts.
-
- It's often a good idea to make sure that whoever is administering your
- domain, under NIS, or DNS, has localhost defined IN YOUR DOMAIN.
- having localhost.ubc.ca does me no good if my domain is cs.ubc.ca .
- --
- Stephen Samuel (604)822-9248 samuel@cs.ubc.ca
- The first prerequisite to winning is playing the game.
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