Re: No local name lookup

[Dancer <dancer@ozspace.brisnet.org.au>]

On 18 Feb 1995, Frank Bartels wrote:

> Dancer (dancer@ozspace.brisnet.org.au) wrote:
> 
> There is no MiNT-Net 141. This is the version of init (called "MiNTOS").

	Sorry about that...not enough sleep :)
> 
> The domain brisnet.org in nonexistant in the DNS.

	Did you remember the .au on the end?
> 
> > (the output from route and ifconfig is...)
> 
> seems to be correct.
> 
> > Now, if I don't include gateway1 (203.4.148.1) as a nameserver, I don't 
> > get any name lookup. But 'localhost' is never resolved, nor is lo0 or 
> > loghost. No name lookup takes place on my local box at all (except that I 
> > _can_ refer to the names when I'm doing ifconfig, route or slattach).
> 
> Sorry, I don't understand your problem. How do you try to resolve the
> hostnames? Does nslookup work? Did you setup /etc/host.conf and did
> you recompile your network applications with the latest socket library
> with the `new' resolver?

Resolution by gethostbyname(). Example:

# telnet localhost
localhost: unknown host

Same result for any of the aliases. 'thelbane' My own hostname only works 
on a good day. I can't recompile anything at this stage, because I am 
still fetching the compilers et al, through a 2400 baud link when it 
isn't choked with other traffic.

Dancer
PS: Forgive any innacuracies...I've been up for 30+ hours.
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