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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Pinging myself
Date: 14 Aug 1995 10:30:48 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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References: <808168572snz@beckley.demon.co.uk>
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Ian W Taylor <iwta@beckley.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>I can 'ping localhost' successfully but any attempt to
>'ping beckley' or 'ping beckley.demon.co.uk' gets no
>reply.
Does it perchance try to DNS lookup the name?
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)