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From: krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  TCP Hostname Resolving - 10.2/BSD
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Date: 2 Nov 90 15:15:45 GMT
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Check your /etc/hosts file ... gateways usually have two entries
in the file -- one for each network attached. Unfortunately, it
seems that the routines which return the IP number for a given
hostname stop as soon as they find *any* *single* entry which
matches the given name. If the first entry in /etc/hosts is for
the IP number of the network other than the one to which your
local machine is attached, that is the IP number which will be
returned for the machine ... and you will not know how to reach
that network (especially since routed will tell you that to reach
that network, you want to forward via the gateway, whose IP address
is on the network you want to reach ... I love circular definitions!).


 -- David Krowitz

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