From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Pleasants Subject: Re: Printer error Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 22:25:24 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3DFFEAA4.5020904@myfreei.com> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20021216085528.02134570@celine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Ray Olszewski Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs