Hello L.V.Gandhi, Wednesday, June 4, 2003, 6:19:55 PM, you wrote:
>> I would really appreciate help in getting the net access to work >> again. [Maybe also solving why the comp shows up as 'localhost' to >> other machines on the local net.] :-) LVG> local host gives you the answer. default settings in linuxconf made your host LVG> name to localhost. hence it couldn't connect. LVG> Put your hostname in /etc/hosts with ip address and change hostname in LVG> /etc/sysconfig/network. Reboot. you should get network back. In this case linuxconf set up a firewall that was blocking everything. When I disabled the firewall, I got the net working again. But, your advice got the name to show up correctly - no more localhost. Thanks! -- Thank you, rikona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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