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On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 05:37:31PM +0000, Chris Reeves wrote:
Cliff Sarginson wrote:
Lynx on my Suse Version 7.0, kernel 2.2.16 PC does not seem to find my local HTTP server by any of it's aliases (either in /etc/hosts or from nameserver CNAME entries)...
For example, "foo" is suppsoed to be my "localhost" HTTP server
if "foo" is an alias for host.somenet.net in /etc/hosts and "foo.somenet.net" is CNAME'd to host.somenet.net (and the domain entry in resolv.conf is for "somenet.net)
lynx foo
will not look for foo.somenet.net, it causes instead a DNS lookup to my upstream DNS.
On a sister machine on my network, running FreeBSD, but with an identical version of lynx and lynx.cfg .. it works properly.
Check /etc/host.conf and make sure that "hosts" is before "bind" on the order line.
Checked all that..but I know what the problem is now :) Lynx tries to access the HTTP proxy on my ISP directly. Which is nice, except when you don;t want it to. Fiddled and got what I want eventually.. Thanks Cliff