some really basic networking questions

[Pam R]

On Tuesday 16 July 2002 7:38 pm, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> Obviously you've patched the eD box...  eD and eS both suffered from a bug
> which didn't update /etc/hosts.  Douglas Hunley kindly wrote a patch for
> it.  Perhaps you have installed dhclient, which I believe works well
> (original eD ran dhcpcd, IIRC).
>

Actually I must confess to lying :-( It was really a EW3.1 box

Pam

> On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:49:47 +0100
>
> "Pam R" <pamroberts at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> > >From my eD2.4 box...
> >
> > [pam at betsy pam]$ ll /etc/hosts
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root     root          282 Jul 16 18:48 /etc/hosts
> > [pam at betsy pam]$ cat /etc/hosts
> > #------------------------------------------------------------
> > #
> > # /etc/hosts file, automatically generated by DHCP boot
> > # script -- do not edit.
> > #
> > #------------------------------------------------------------
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost betsylin betsylin.nodomain.nowhere
> > 10.1.2.12 lillith
>
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