On Monday 24 June 2002 09:50 pm, Todd Lyons wrote:
> Praedor Tempus wrote on Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 03:49:25PM -0500 :
> > /etc/hosts:
> > 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
>
> good start
>
> > 127.0.0.1       lapdog.ravenhome.net    lapdog
>
> bad.  Delete it.
>
> > 10.0.0.1        lapdog.ravenhome.net    lapdog
>
> good
>
> > 10.0.0.5        overlord.ravenhome.net  overlord
>
> good
>
> One of two situtations will exist:
> 1) You don't have any network cards.  All hostnames that you want to use
> to access stuff on your machine will be appended to the localhost line.
> Leave the first part alone, just add the hostnames to it.
> 2) You do have at least one network card.  In this case, the localhost
> line should consist solely of the first like you have listed above.  Any
> other hostname should have its own IP address on the following lines.

OK.  The 10.0.0.1 address refers to my wlan card that acts as an access point 
for my desktop (I gave up trying to get an adhoc connection going even though 
it should have been painless).  It is sometimes inserted and used as it 
conflicts with my linmodem when I try to have them both up at the same time 
(makes connection sharing via the modem impossible on my laptop 
unfortunately).  The 10.0.0.5 address is the address that gets assigned by my 
laptop dhcp server to my desktop when it has its wlan card activated.

So, given this, the /etc/hosts is cool then (other than the duplicate 
127.0.0.1 entry)?

praedor

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