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

[James Kaufman]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 05:51:43PM -0600, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> 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
> 
>     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.

The non-routable address space:
        192.168.0.0 -> 192.168.255.255
        172.16.0.0 -> 172.31.255.255
        10.0.0.0 -> 10.255.255.255

> 
> 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.

The 'hosts.sam' is a sample hosts file. To use it under Windows, copy the
hosts.sam to hosts and edit that file.

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Jim Kaufman
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