Though I haven't used windows for a while now, there is a little secret
windows/Unix crossover feature where you can have an /etc/hosts file
which your box will use for name resolution before attempting to contact
your dns provider. Another possible solution to your problem is to put
your machine name in the hosts file as 127.0.0.1.
Here's a excerpt from http://www.jhsoft.com/help/hostsfile.htm
On Windows 95/98 the "hosts" file is located in the "c:\windows"
directory and on Windows NT in the "c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc"
directory.
A sample "hosts" file is supplied with Windows named "hosts.sam" located
in the same directory.
Please note that the file must be named "hosts" without any extension
and it must be located in the above directories for Windows to
automatically use it without a DNS server.
Paul Kinnucan wrote:
>
> At 08:45 AM 8/21/00 -0300, Steve Rauch wrote:
> >
> >Hi Paul,
> >
> > I am getting the following messages (in both classic and hotspot mode) on
> >my home system
> >
> >Debugger started successfully.
> >Unknown host "HOME-PC"
> > ;;; after initiating the JDEBug -> Processes -> Launch Process
> >
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> When the JDE launches a debuggee process, it attempts to create a socket
> between Emacs and the debugger to be used to send standard input to the
> debuggee process and get standard and error output back from the debuggee
> process. It uses the standard Emacs function, make-comint, to create the
> socket connection. This function requires the name of the host to which to
> make the connection. The JDE passes the value of
> jde-bug-debugger-host-address to make-comint. The value of
> jde-bug-debugger-host-address is the value of the standard Emacs variable,
> system-name, by default. This appears to be HOME-PC on your home system. In
> other words, Emacs believes the name of your home PC is HOME-PC.
> Unfortunately, the networking software on your system does not appear to
> recognize this name. I am not enough about your setup or Windows networking
> to know why this is happening. The only thing I can suggest is that you try
> setting jde-bug-debugger-host-address to the default absolute network
> address for a local host:
>
> 127.0.0.1
>
> - Paul
