[opensuse] Re: host file question
Anton Aylward wrote:
Joachim Schrod said the following on 06/11/2012 04:36 PM:
Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
On 06/11/12 10:45, James Hatridge pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
OK, its been a long time since I've set this up and I must be missing something.
This is my host file:
192.168.0.101 warthog.de warthog
But when I try to use FF to go to warthog or warthog.de it times out. When I use www.warthog.de I get some odd dating site.
Since you apparently do not own the domain come up with one that is not. Then it should work.
It's not relevant if he owns the domain or not. If he has the cited entry in his hosts file, access to warthog should work.
No. Read what he says. His entry is
192.168.0.101 warthog.de warthog and he's trying to contact www.warthog.de
He doens't have an entry for www.warthog.de
Anton, please read emails in full before replying. I explained it in the rest of the email that you discarded and obviously didn't read at all. Just for you, to repeat it: *First*, he tries to connect to warthog and warthog.de. It times out. There, his hosts file *is* used. That he doesn't own warthog.de has no relevance at all to this problem. The recommendation of Ken to change the host entry names warthog and warthog.de to some different host names that aren't defined in some DNS server won't change that behaviour a single bit. The IP address of that entry will still be used for connection and it will still time out. By now, we have already established that he simply uses an IP address in this hosts entry that his system doesn't have. That's the reason for "try to use FF to go to warthog or warthog.de it times out", as cited above by you. In my 1st email I also explained why www.warthog.de doesn't work, since DNS lookup is used for that. Just as you wrote as well. I know from your past posts that you're knowledgable. How about helping James with his actual problem? Cheers, Joachim PS: For completeness, hosts entries _could_ be ignored by a misconfigured nsswitch.conf. But that's not probable to be done by a person who asks basic questions about hosts entries. It's not implausible that he doesn't even know what nsswitch.conf is at all. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod, Roedermark, Germany Email: jschrod@acm.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-06-12 00:12, Joachim Schrod wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
Joachim Schrod said the following on 06/11/2012 04:36 PM:
He doens't have an entry for www.warthog.de
Anton, please read emails in full before replying.
Joachim, maybe you have not noticed, but one of your posts created a new separate thread, so it is possible he could not read that post where you explained what you say. I know because it happened to me too: you made a reference to a previous post of yours which I had not seen. Look at <http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2012-06/all.html> and notice the two threads: <http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2012-06/msg00315.html> <http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2012-06/msg00329.html> This is gmame's fault. The first post, to which you replied, has: Message-ID: <15224880.12YjdHhMo3@linux-4qfd> and your post has: In-Reply-To: <15224880.12YjdHhMo3__32166.4610448808$1339425884$gmane$org@linux-4qfd> which has some text in the middle that breaks threading. And, there is no "References" header. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk/WcV4ACgkQIvFNjefEBxq8ZQCfZ4o+pKTAEskPVAxg/An05cZc U6kAoKZbYj1L7qY/l1jmweVIOXvyuhPt =dgkX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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