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Re: Networking Round 2
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Tue, 20 Mar 2001 18:09:25 GMT
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In article <GAH0tq.BsH@lugnet.com>,
Jamie Obrien <jamien@interworx.com.au> wrote:
> Hiya, as far as i can tell no. I played (read cleaned up, oops) the config,
> and everything seems ok, but i can't ping anything other than localhost. . I
> got nslookup working and checked, got dig going, everything else, but i
> think i'm missing something really basic, i just can't work it out.
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> I get an network unreachable response when i do a ping local.com which i
> guess means it is trying look for it offsite. I'll have to go and check the
> files again i guess, though it propably has something to do with the
> /etc/hosts file i've just been reading about.
Oh! Another thing: I wouldn't use local.com unless you actually own local.com
and the root nameservers point to you to resolve local.com. But I don't
_think_ that's what's causing your problem.
I'd use something with a domain that doesn't exist. Lots of people like
.bogus; I'm using .foo.
-JDF
--
J.D. Forinash ,-.
foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu ( <
The more you learn, the better your luck gets. `-'
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| (...) Yeah just you wait 'til they open up new TLDs; if it's done right, .foo will be one of the first to go. (And then .bar, of course....) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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