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- From: austin@METO.UMD.EDU (Austin L. Conaty)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
- Subject: nmconfig -h hostent_bind Help!!???
- Message-ID: <9209031612.AA01389@meto.UMD.EDU>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 16:12:42 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Organization: The Internet
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- Hello Folks,
- I recently moved away from using a .5MB /etc/hosts file, and
- started using nmconfig -h hostent_bind. Now my /etc/hosts file
- is less than 120 lines, and I'm using 4 nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf.
- The first one is 127.0.0.1, and the rest are local campus nameservers.
-
- I can't seem to get processes like telnet, mail, ftp etc......
- to look at the local /etc/hosts file first. When I mail or telnet
- to the address I get the error: unknown host. When I grep the /etc/hosts
- file for that address, sure enough it is there.
-
- Should I have someone add this address to the campus nameserver?
- Or is there a way to look at the /etc/hosts file before going out
- over the net?
-
- I should add that using nmconfig works great for common addresses,
- but that a few uncommon addresses that I have in /etc/hosts just
- don't connect.
-
- Thanks,
- Austin Conaty
-
- PS /sys/node_data/etc/daemons looks like this:
- README llbd nmconfig sendmail
- damd lpd portmap tcpd
- glbd mountd rgyd
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- Department of Meteorology austin@atmos.umd.edu
- University of Maryland 301-405-5357
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