Another question about the networking in MacOSX
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From: Golden California Girls on 9 Jul 2010 22:17 Kenny McCormack wrote: > I put in my /etc/hosts file: > > 192.168.99.99 myhost > > Then I do: ping myhost > and it works. But when I do: telnet myhost > it says: myhost: No address associated with nodename > > Why? How to fix? > > Tested repeatedly over the course of about 10 minutes (because I know > there is some latency in OSX where if you edit the Unix-y configuration > files, the OS doesn't always pick up on it right away). In all tests, > the ping worked but the telnet did not. > > Note: telnetting directly to 192.168.99.99 works fine. > Just something out of left field. Try in single-user mode. Mac has a lot of Unix stuff it ignores and does differently in multi-user than single-user.
From: Wayne C. Morris on 10 Jul 2010 13:09 In article <i184bi$beu$3(a)usenet01.boi.hp.com>, Rick Jones <rick.jones2(a)hp.com> wrote: > David Schwartz <davids(a)webmaster.com> wrote: > > On Jul 8, 5:58?am, gaze...(a)shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) wrote: > > > I put in my /etc/hosts file: > > > > > > 192.168.99.99 ? myhost > > Interesting that the '?' appeared when David was quoting Kenny's post. > Makes me wonder if there are some "strange" characters in the > /etc/hosts file. Carefully retyping the line might be a worthwhile > experiment. No, Kenny's message only contained a tab character between the IP address and the name. David replied via Google, which, being web-based, substituted regular and non-breaking spaces to preserve the spacing. It did the same for double spaces too.
From: David Schwartz on 10 Jul 2010 21:52
On Jul 9, 5:57 am, gaze...(a)shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) wrote: > >http://osxfaq.com/man/5/resolv.conf.ws > > has nothing to do with my question. Thanks. Sorry, I pasted the wrong link. DS |