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- From: nomad@watson.ibm.com (Lee `nomaD` Damon)
- Subject: Re: where is the NEW telnetd ?
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:12:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.192413.15654@sfu.ca> rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen) writes:
- >This is true. It is not telnet's fault, rather the way linux does
- >name resolving. You shouldn't see thins if you:
- >1) have access to a nameserver
- >2) are running named
- >So if you are doing loopback just for fun, you will have to:
- >1) wrestle with configuring named
- >2) wait the minute
- >
- >- Ken
-
- Or make sure you have a correct /etc/inet/hosts file, and remove
- /etc/inet/resov.conf so that lookups go to the hosts file instead.
-
- However, if you have any plans to really network the box, it is
- worth it to you to figure out how to use DNS by getting a nameserver
- working.
-
- nomad
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