Linux tries to talk to nameserver when accessing localhost (was Re: neighbour table overflow with Woody)

[Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org>]

Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org> wrote on 30/12/2000 (21:57) :
> Apparently I did something else as well as it stopped working :-(

That is when I'm not on the net, the machine still tries to talk to the
nameservers I have set up in resolv.conf when I write :
netscape http://localhost/
and it then hangs for a long time as it cannot connect to the
nameservers.

If I write netscape http://127.0.0.1/ it works.

# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain

# cat /etc/resolv.conf
 nameserver 193.212.1.11
 nameserver 193.212.1.10

Any hints much appreciated!

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