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- From: styri@hal.nta.no (Haakon Styri)
- Subject: Re: DNS-no-NIS.FAQ
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.092157.20765@nntp.nta.no>
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- Organization: Norwegian Telecom Research
- References: <1992Aug19.082803.6899@nntp.nta.no> <1992Aug19.185105.5910@u.washington.edu> <7_#npdg.ptrubey@netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 09:21:57 GMT
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- In article <7_#npdg.ptrubey@netcom.com>, Phil Trubey writes:
- >
- > Also, can you not put in an alias to the machine 'localhost' in the
- > DNS files that points to your local machine? Never mind - I just figured
- > out why this won't work - all Suns using the DNS would all have 'their'
- > localhost point to a single Sun - not the intended effect.
-
- You could define your `localhost' as `127.0.0.1' and live happily with that.
-
- Anyway, I'll modify my FAQ-file. :-)
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