According to Jeremy Wiebe: While burning my CPU.
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> Hi,
> I have been trying to set up a small network at home. I have a desktop
> computer and a laptop, which I use on a network at school. The laptop is a
> Win95 computer configured to use DHCP to get its IP information.
>
> I have gotten a DHCP server for my linux box and have it working ok. The
> problem I am running into is that I can execute:
> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 OK!
> ifconfig lo localhost Says that: hostname lookup failed!
>
> Question: Shouldn't that work?
Yes, it does here and the results are the same, ifconfig shows no change for
whichever is used.
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> My /etc/hosts file is listed here:
> localhost 127.0.0.1
> jtwiebe 192.168.0.1
If that is your actual file (syntax) try;
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.0.1 jtwiebe.domain
route add -net 192.0.0 netmask 192.0.0.0 eth0
(I hope i have the netmask correct).
That should enable you to comunicate with other boxes, if thier routes are
set correctly.
Of course i could have completey misunderstood your question.
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> I am using RH 5.1 with a PCI NE-2000 compatible ethernet card. I have gone
> through the NET-3-HOWTO and have everything working except the name
> resolution.
>
> Please help
>
> Jeremy
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Regards Richard.
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