OH GEEZ, DUH!!!! now I remember that is exacty the case
On 13 Sep 98, at 14:37, Pete wrote:
> afaik, .sam stands for "sample" - rename the file to just hosts
> thats because windows isn't looking in your hosts.sam file, but instead
> it's looking for a hosts file.the reason you are able to use the machine's
> own name to ping itself is because it's in windows' tcp/ip configuration
> (under dns i believe)
oh, it will go by the info in the linux /etc/resolv.conf next then?
> it goes by c:\windows\hosts first, then if it can't look up the name there
> it will try to connect to the dns server as listed in your tcp/ip
> configuration in control panel. (that would normally be your isp's dns)
yes it it compiled in and it returns a 1, after reinstalling and compiling 20 times or
so,
that is one thing I am absolutley sure of!
> if forwarding is indeed compiled into your kernel (is it?), then you
> should check to see whether 'cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward' returns 1.
> if it doesn't, try 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward', if it works
> you'll have to put that line in one of your rc scripts.
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