On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Bodo Bauer wrote:

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

Hi Bodo!, Thank you and the others on the list for the help and info. I've got it working now. You're right I had to turn off the proxy. NOW, my question is "what does the proxy do for me?" If I can get to the net without it, why not? It seems to me that it is just one less machine to go though to get to the net. Can you shed some light on this? Thanks again! JIM ----------------------------------------- Jim Hatridge Germany hatridge@straubing.baynet.de ___________ News Flash! -------------- News Flash! ___________________ Yesterday, a ferry boat leaving Haiti sunk and 300 people died, drowned, as the boat capsized. But a tragedy was avoided when they discovered that none of them on board was a Princess. --- Harlan Ellison, InterZone -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e