Hosts file

antonio montagnani antonio.montagnani at gmail.com
Thu Oct 11 21:07:47 UTC 2007


2007/10/11, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>:
> On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 12:52 +0200, antonio montagnani wrote:
> > I checked my hosts file and it is empty. I copied from another PC
> > changing the name of computer, I re-booted and it is still empty!!!
> > What shall I check???
>
> "/etc/hosts"?
>
> Is your interface handled by DHCP?  It can re-write the hosts file, you
> might want to make your changes while disconnected.
>
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Why should a Dynamic address re-write my hosts file??? in this case
blankening it??

Any technical reason or is it a bug??? When host file is empty,
logging in not cable connected is extremely long.....

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Antonio Montagnani
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