i'm in a black hole ... black net

[Brian Fahrlander]

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 22:44 +0000, fellons wrote:

    Your /etc/hosts needs help.

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost home   <-- Fine
192.168.0.1 home.bear.net bear                   <-- problem
192.168.0.2 pegasus.bear.net pegasus             <-- problem

    You don't _own_ bear.net; the address _isn't_ home.bear.net; these
addresses can't resolve- you've given internal numbers an external name.
This is probably the most prevalent misunderstandings out there.

    There are 'reserved' ranges of IP addresses, 192.168.*.* is one,
172.something-or-other is another, and there's 10.10.*, too.  These
won't route- routers drop them instead of passing them on to other
routers who might find them.

Try:
127.0.0.1    localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.0.1  home.local home
192.168.0.2  pegasus.local pegasus

    This needs to be in the /etc/hosts of both machines.  I believe the
MS world calls this hosts.sam or something similarly ignorant, but if
you make both machines aware of these addresses, all is well.

    Putting "home" in there with the local address just confuses the
issue; you can leave it off.

    You're pinging, so there's not reason to ask if you have link
lights, and this should solve your problem.

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Brian Fahrländer                 Christian, Conservative, and Technomad
Evansville, IN                                http://www.fahrlander.net 
ICQ: 5119262                                          AIM: WheelDweller
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