Re: Setting up LocalHost and LocalNet

Micha <[email protected]> writes:

> | address.  If your domainname is lan1 then the name woody actually
> | means woody.lan1, it is just a shortened version of it.
> 
> /home mi: cat /etc/hosts | grep woody
> 127.0.0.1       woody           localhost		
> 192.168.1.2	woody.lan1	          # localhost eth0 
> 
> What's wrong with this setup ?

It should be:

127.0.0.1       localhost
192.168.1.2	woody.lan1 woody

This is how I have my computers set up and it is how the hosts(5)
manual page shows an example hosts file:

-------------------- man hosts --------------------
EXAMPLE
        127.0.0.1       localhost
        192.168.1.10    foo.mydomain.org  foo
        192.168.1.13    bar.mydomain.org  bar
        146.82.138.7    master.debian.org      master
        209.237.226.90  www.opensource.org
-------------------- man hosts --------------------

Using a hosts file like this means that the same hosts file can be
used on all computers.  The hosts file should not be computer specific
but describes the whole network.


I don't know how this would explain the problem that you are seeing
with the timeouts.  A timeout of 2 minutes sounds like it is a
connection timeout but from the log file we can see that WWWOFFLE has
no open connections at the time.

-- 
Andrew.
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WWWOFFLE users page:
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