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From: chris@vindaloo.com (Christopher Sean Hilton)
Subject: Re: EMACS and FreeBSD 2.1-SNAP ... (funny)
Organization: Vindaloo communications
Message-ID: <1995Sep24.014611.13292@vindaloo.com>
References: <4410av$kmf@nntp.interaccess.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 95 01:46:11 GMT
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In article <4410av$kmf@nntp.interaccess.com>,
James Pitts <pitts@flowbee.interaccess.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Just the other day I installed FreeBSD 2.1 (one of the SNAP releases). I
>am pleased to say the install went well. It is a very impressive piece of
>software. I have been using FreeBSD back when it was first born. It is
>really impressive to see how far the package has come since those days.
>
>After installing FreeBSD 2.1 I brought the on-demand ppp on line. It more
>or less worked as advertised. Another nice feature of the release.
>
>After this, I installed some packages on the machine, including EMACS.
>Everything seemed to be just fine until I went to edit a file with emacs.
>EMACS started to come up, then the modem dialed my provider, established a
>ppp connection, exchanged some packets when someone somewher, and then
>let me edit the file. Now I can't use emacs without establishing a ppp
>connection. :/
You've got your provider's name server listed before your hosts file
in your /etc/resolv.conf file. When emacs comes up it does a
gethostbyname() call and this tickles DNS which calls your provider.
If you switch the order in /etc/resolv.conf to:
domain foobarbaz.net
hosts
nameserver x.x.x.1
nameserver x.x.x.2
gethostbyname() will be able to figure out your host name without
resorting to dns first.
Chris
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