Derek Jennings wrote:
On Sunday 13 March 2005 05:53, SnapafunFrank wrote:Thanks derek ~ in a nutshell and well understood ~ really simple really when it's explained like this ~ greatly appreciated.
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:
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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.
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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
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