According to Jeroen: While burning my CPU.
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> Hi again,
>
> I think I'm almost there, well almost at the start that is.
> I am tryung with just two pc's for starters.
> One win95 and one Linux pc.
> But I get an errormessage when I boot my pc:
> netmask: Host name lookup failure.
> What I've done sofar is:
> get the kernel to recognise my nic => OK
> edited inet.1 , hosts, hosts.allow, hosts.deny
> and resolv.conf but with that last one I don't
> exactly know what I' ve got to put in so I've played a bit
> with that. Could my error come from this last file or do I have
> to look somewhere completly different?
I can only think that the error message is being caused by a "bogus" netmask
address, try the default of 255.255.255.0 and see what happens.
Of course a DNS lookup will possably fail as you would not have "net"
connectity at that point in the booting proceedure, a way around that is to
define your domain and that of your isp in /etc/hosts
/etc/hosts.allow and deny have no connection to this problem.
For DNS requests your /etc/resolv.conf would need 2 entrys one for your
domain and one for the DNS servername itself.
search foo.org
nameserver ISP's IP#
> Thanx in advance,
> Jeroen
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Regards Richard.
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