Thomas, My /etc/hosts file does have 127.0.0.1 localhost in it. My /etc/host.conf has "order hosts,bind" in it.
Tony ---------- > From: Thomas Baetzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Tony Koehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: NSLOOKUP don't work > Date: Monday, July 14, 1997 10:01 AM > > Tony Koehn wrote: > :After getting debian installed I tried to do a nslookup and I get this > :message: > : > :*** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Non-existent host.domain > :*** Default servers are not available. > : > :What did I do wrong? > > See wether there's a line "127.0.0.1 localhost" in /etc/hosts. > See wether /etc/host.conf has "order hosts,bind" or "order bind,hosts" > in it. The first one will query /etc/hosts before going to the nameserver > configured in /etc/resolv.conf, while the other will do it in the reverse > order. > > Ciao, > -- > Thomas Baetzler, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <A HREF="http://www.fh-karlsruhe.de/~bath0011/>Visit my Homepage!</A> > "The cowards never came, and the weaklings died on the way" - R.A.H. > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
