On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Donald D Henson wrote:-
One thing that looks wrong to me is the host configuration. There is no host name for IP address 127.0.0.1. I have host names for:
127.0.0.2 Earth-svr.site 127.0.0.3 Venus-ws.site 127.0.0.4 Marslaptop.site
From the names, I'm guessing that these are different systems. If so, you need to move them from 127.0.0.x addresses to another address block. Suitable addresses for local networks are the ranges:
10.0.0.1 to 10.255.255.254; 172.16.0.1 to 176.31.255.254; 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.254; These addresses are specifically set aside for local networks and traffic to or from them shouldn't be passed on across the Internet. As for the 127.0.0.1 to 127.255.255.254 address block, all traffic to any address in that block is sent to the loop-back interface, and so never leaves the local system. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: http://www.distributed.net/ OGR-P2 @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~15Mkeys SUSE 10.1 32 | | openSUSE 10.3 32bit | openSUSE 11.0 32bit | openSUSE 10.2 64bit | openSUSE 10.3 64bit | openSUSE 11.0 64bit RISC OS 3.6 | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 10.3 PPC | RISC OS 3.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org