On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:10:01PM -0600, Jimmy Richards wrote: <SNIP> > Try dig -x 192.168.1.45
Hi Jim. OK. Here's the spew: ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 55359 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;45.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: 168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA. 10590 IN SOA blackhole.isi.edu. bmanning.isi.edu. 19971802 10800 900 604800 86400 ;; Query time: 65 msec ;; SERVER: 24.64.223.195#53(24.64.223.195) ;; WHEN: Fri Jul 13 12:43:32 2001 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 125 It appears that the first nameserver in resolv.conf is queried about this. This is what I suspected. Since I am using dhcp-client on this workstation, and a fireplug firewall, what do I need to do to /etc/hosts to make it reflect the state of ifconfig (see below)? eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:CC:E5:FA:7C inet addr:192.168.1.45 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:6503 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6990 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:3417730 (3.2 Mb) TX bytes:725129 (708.1 Kb) Interrupt:12 Base address:0xb000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:2827 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2827 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:675627 (659.7 Kb) TX bytes:675627 (659.7 Kb) TIA, Mike