On Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:34:46 -0400, Andy Finnell <andyf@vei.net> wrote:
> Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> > 
> > Do you have a nameserver running on the NetBSD box? If not, use the ip
> > addr's that your ISP supplies.
> 
> No, I don't have nameserver on the NetBSD box.  And niether the Mac or
> NetBSD are connected to the internet.  I have a hosts file for the MacOS
> and one for the NetBSD box.  Do I *have* to be connected to the
> internet?

No, but if you are not and you are not running nameserver on the
NetBSD box, you can't use hostnames (unless OT has the equivalent of
/etc/hosts file).

Ken