System asks ISP for local address

Manuel Arostegui Ramirez manuel at todo-linux.com
Tue Sep 11 20:41:52 UTC 2007


El Martes, 11 de Septiembre de 2007 22:33, lanas escribió:
> Hello,
>
>   I'm doing some local HTML server tests in the 192.168.n.n range and
> each time I ask for this address in Konqueror the system first attempts
> to reach the ISP to finally find out that it's a local address.  It's a
> bit annoying for the principle of it.  What would be a proper setting
> (in resolv.conf ?) so that the system (Fedora Core 6) immediately
> recognizes a localnet address (in this case it's the machine itself,
> not even another machine on the localnet !) and does not bother calling
> up the ISP to figure it out. - Thanks.
>
> Cheers,
> Al

Just set it up in the /etc/hosts

Manuel.

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