Re: local networking hostname

2002-07-23 Thread chuck gelm
Jim Earl: Please search your drives for a text file named 'hosts'. HTH, Chuck Jim Earl wrote: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read

Re: local networking hostname

2002-07-22 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 02:07 PM 7/22/02 -0600, Jim Earl wrote: [...] >The Non-Linux is a Mac OS 9. What you both are saying makes sense- not a >Linux issue, but rather a Mac equivalent of '/etc/hosts'. I have been >screwing around with with the TCP/IP Control Panel, including "Selecting a >Host File", following app

Re: local networking hostname

2002-07-22 Thread Jim Earl
> From: Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 08:19:00 -0700 > To: Jim Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: local networking hostname > > At 09:03 AM 7/22/02 -0600, Jim Earl wrote: >> Hello! >> >

Re: local networking hostname

2002-07-22 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 09:03 AM 7/22/02 -0600, Jim Earl wrote: >Hello! > >I am setting up a small network of one Linux and one non-Linux box. The >network is established via Ethernet; ifconfig and route report verify this. >I am able to telnet from the non-linux to the Linux box but only using the >IP address - NOT

Re: local networking hostname

2002-07-22 Thread Joseph Jackson
Jim Earl wrote: > Hello! > > I am setting up a small network of one Linux and one non-Linux box. The > network is established via Ethernet; ifconfig and route report verify this. > I am able to telnet from the non-linux to the Linux box but only using the > IP address - NOT using the hostname.

local networking hostname

2002-07-22 Thread Jim Earl
Hello! I am setting up a small network of one Linux and one non-Linux box. The network is established via Ethernet; ifconfig and route report verify this. I am able to telnet from the non-linux to the Linux box but only using the IP address - NOT using the hostname. However, when I try to telne