Re: Linux tries to talk to nameserver when accessing localhost (was Re: neighbour table overflow with Woody)
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 01:09:32AM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote:
> 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!
/etc/host.conf ???
order hosts,bind
multi on
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Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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