Re: Printer error

[Bill Pleasants <Pleasants@myfreei.com>]

Ray Olszewski wrote:

> You don't give us much to go on, but since the problems seem to be 
> with name resolution, I'd suggest you tell us the details of your 
> system as they relate to that.
>
> First is your networking setup. Are you connected to a LAN or directly 
> to the internet? (I guess you must be if you are using MapQuest.) If 
> so, how?

This is a LANless computer connected to the internet by a 56K modem.

>
> More immediately, how does your system do name-to-address resolution? 
> Does it rely on /etc/hosts? If so, what are the contents of that file? 
> Or does it use a nameserver? If so, is it accessable? And what are the 
> contents of the /etc/resolv.conf file? 

I have some notion of what name-to-address resolution is for the 
internet but not what it is for the Linux OS.  /etc/hosts contains:
    "# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
    # that require network functionality will fail.
    127.0.0.1    localhost.localdomain   

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