From morche@sat1.de Tue Mar 10 21:58:42 1998
From: morche@sat1.de
To: users@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Hosts Problem
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 22:58:42 +0100
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In-Reply-To: <[S.u.S.E. Linux] Hosts Problem>
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Jim Hatridge wrote:
...
> A few weeks ago, A friend wrote about how to use shortcuts on
> Lynx/Netscape. For example: in your hosts file put this in:
>=20
> 199.184.169.70  www.linuxgazette.com  lj
>=20
> 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:
>=20
> ***************************************************************************
>                                      ERROR
>=20
> The requested URL could not be retrieved
>=20
>      _________________________________________________________________
>=20
>    While trying to retrieve the URL: <A HREF=3D"http://lj/"><A HREF=3D"http=
://lj/</A">http://lj/</A</A>>
>=20
>    The following error was encountered:
>      * DNS name lookup failure
...
Probably You do use a proxied connection. In that case the host that
runs the proxy will do the DNS lookup. That host doesn't know anything
of Your /etc/hosts...

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	Matthias Morche (<A HREF=3D"mailto:morche(a)sat1.de">mailto:morche(a)sat1.de=
</A>)
		SAT.1 (<A HREF=3D"http://www.sat1.de"><A HREF=3D"http://www.sat1.de</A">htt=
p://www.sat1.de</A</A>>)

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