On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, John Aldrich wrote:
> I'm having a problem with my RH6.2 box. If I'm trying to ftp into it from my
> Windows box while I"m online (via an ethernet based ISDN router) I often have
> troubles logging in. I've got that machine name and IP address in the
> /etc/hosts file, but it seems like it can't resolve the IP of that machine. I'm
> *guessing* that it's trying to look it up via the DNS server, but can't and is
> failing. How do I tell it to check the local /etc/hosts file FIRST for all
> incoming connections?
> Thanks...
> John
>
Check /etc/hosts.conf. It should say something like "order hosts,bind".
It may have more then hosts, bind, depending on your setup, but the
important part for what you want is to have hosts first.
Mikkel
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for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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