From bb@suse.com Tue Mar 10 22:18:30 1998
From: bb@suse.com
To: users@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Hosts Problem
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 23:18:30 +0100
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Jim Hatridge wrote:
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> Hi All;
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> A few weeks ago, A friend wrote about how to use shortcuts on
> Lynx/Netscape. For example: in your hosts file put this in:
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> 199.184.169.70  www.linuxgazette.com  lj
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> 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:
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> ***************************************************************************
>                                      ERROR
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> The requested URL could not be retrieved
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>      _________________________________________________________________
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>    While trying to retrieve the URL: <A HREF=3D"http://lj/"><A HREF=3D"http=
://lj/</A">http://lj/</A</A>>
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>    The following error was encountered:
>      * DNS name lookup failure
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>    The system returned:
>     DNS Domain 'lj' is invalid: Host not found (authoritative).
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>    This means that:
>     The named host probably does not exist.
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>      _________________________________________________________________
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>     Generated by squid/1.1.17(a)proxy.straubing.baynet.de
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> ****************** 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=20
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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