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[bb@xxxxxxxx (Bodo Bauer)]

Jim Hatridge wrote:
> 
> Hi All;
> 
> A few weeks ago, A friend wrote about how to use shortcuts on
> Lynx/Netscape. For example: in your hosts file put this in:
> 
> 199.184.169.70  www.linuxgazette.com  lj
> 
> Now I should be able to just type in "lj" to get to the Linux Gazette web
> page. BUT, in stead I'm getting this error:
> 
> ***************************************************************************
>                                      ERROR
> 
> The requested URL could not be retrieved
> 
>      _________________________________________________________________
> 
>    While trying to retrieve the URL: <A HREF="http://lj/";><A HREF="http://lj/</A">http://lj/</A</A>>
> 
>    The following error was encountered:
>      * DNS name lookup failure
> 
>    The system returned:
>     DNS Domain 'lj' is invalid: Host not found (authoritative).
> 
>    This means that:
>     The named host probably does not exist.
> 
>      _________________________________________________________________
> 
>     Generated by squid/1.1.17@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> ****************** end of Error listing ************************

If you use a proxy, the proxy will try to resolv the hostname, not your
lokal host, so you have to make sure, that this line is in /etc/hosts
on the machine, that runs the proxy.
But anyway, I'm not sure if squid uses /etc/hosts at all. It uses a 
subprocess called 'dnserver' to speed up DNS rewuests, it may be, that
this bypasses /etc/hosts...

Disable the proxy in your browser and try again, this should work...

Ciao,
        BB

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