Subject: Re: NCSA httpd1.3, Netscape1.1b, non-networked NetBSD Machine
To: None <pchris@panix.com>
From: Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/03/1995 10:35:42
> > Netscape is probably looking for a foreign URL by default.  Did you try
> > specifying a local one on the command line?
>
> Just tried that, and netscape came up "frozen" with the clock mouse
> pointer.  I believe the problem is that somehow I have to establish
> an IP address <---> Host name relationship, and I'm not sure how to
> configure this.  I have made an entry for the hostname (using the
> "localhost" IP address) in the /etc/hosts file, but I'm pretty sure
> this isn't enough to make things work.  Anybody know how to do this
> configuration?

I remember that "auis" did this to me back when I didn't have a
network card.  I worked around it by putting a slip interface
together.

Alternatively, but ugly, you can add your hostname to the localhost
entry in /etc/hosts:

127.1           localhost myhost