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

2001-01-02 Thread Preben Randhol
"Eric G . Miller" wrote on 01/01/2001 (21:02) : > This would contradict the man page for host.conf which explicitly says > the arguments must be separated by commas. I tried it both ways and > found no difference for either local or remote lookups. However, I'm > not sure if /etc/nsswitch.conf d

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

2001-01-01 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 02:51:48PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > > /etc/host.conf ??? > > > > order hosts,bind > > multi on > > It turns out that /etc/host.conf with > > order hosts bind > multi on > > works. > > NOTICE that there is no comma (or punctuation) between hosts and bind. > Otherwi

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

2001-01-01 Thread Preben Randhol
"Eric G . Miller" wrote on 31/12/2000 (01:32) : > On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 01:09:32AM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > > Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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, t

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

2000-12-30 Thread Preben Randhol
Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 31/12/2000 (01:44) : and nsswitch.conf : % cat nsswitch.conf # /etc/nsswitch.conf # # Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality. # If you have the `glibc-doc' and `info' packages installed, try: # `info libc "Name Service Switch"'

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

2000-12-30 Thread Preben Randhol
"Eric G . Miller" wrote on 31/12/2000 (01:32) : > On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 01:09:32AM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > > Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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, t

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

2000-12-30 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 01:09:32AM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

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

2000-12-30 Thread Preben Randhol
Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 the

Re: neighbour table overflow with Woody

2000-12-30 Thread Preben Randhol
Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/12/2000 (18:26) : > > I found the error. I had edited the wrong file and commented out auto lo > in /etc/network/interfaces Apparently I did something else as well as it stopped working :-( -- Preben Randhol -- http://www.pvv.or

Re: neighbour table overflow with Woody

2000-12-30 Thread Preben Randhol
Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/12/2000 (18:14) : > I can connect to the outside world, but i cannot connect to localhost > neither with ssh nor netscape. If I connect to my machine with either > from another machine it works. I also get neighbour table overflow in > the /var/log/mes