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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!news.mtu.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!howland.erols.net!Frankfurt.Germany.EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Add aliases into "hosts" file Not!! Work!! Date: 1 Apr 1997 12:28:13 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5hqv0t$kc1@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <5hcuqf$uvt@news.loxinfo.co.th> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6542 ssp@pc134.loxinfo.co.th (Sayan Uparipab) wrote: > In file hosts: > > 127.1 localhost > 208.147.0.120 myhost > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > And I use ping or telnet to "myhost" there have messages "unknown host myhost" Do you have nameservice (DNS) running? In this case, a negative response to the query by a namserver will be taken as the definite answer, without ever consulting /etc/hosts. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j