On Sunday 13 March 2005 05:53, SnapafunFrank wrote: > Some time ago I got this working OK and only recently discovered that > the /etc/hosts file has been re-written ~ possible still more stuff left > over from the corruption of my .ICEauthority. > > Here's what I posted to assist someone at the time in regards to OOo > opening slowly: > > Quote: > > mine reads: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > 127.0.0.1 Snapafun.localdomain localhost > 127.0.0.1 www.snapafun.con Snapafun > 127.0.0.1 www.snapafun.con localhost > > Now that's somewhat overkill and needs a clean up but it works. > > End Quote: > > Since this time I have installed and have running at present ADSL via > eth0. [ Dynamic with my ISP ] > > I seem to recall that another entry was required here for that ~ anyone > know what that is supposed to be ? > > Hopefully this exercise will speed my system up to what it was before > the .ICEauthority corruption.
/etc/hosts has nothing to do with .ICEauthority You do not need to add anything when you go to ADSL The /etc/hosts file is simply a list to match host names to IP addresses. You did not need 4 separate lines, you could have just put 127.0.0.1 alias1 alias2 alias3 alias4 alias5 and so on... When you refer to a host name in for example a browser url, your computer will check to see if it is the hosts table before it bothers to ask a DNS server what the IP address of that host is. So if you try to browse to http://www.snapafun.con then your computer will immediately translate that as http://127.0.0.1 Thats all the /etc/hosts file does. You would most commonly use the hosts table to identify the other computers in a small local network with static addressing. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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