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by **Mechani** » Sat, 05 Jul 1997 04:00:00

Hi,

I am making PPP connection (RedHat 4.0) using netcfg as a root under fvwm.
Everything looks working (telnet, ftp)

When I am logging as just a user, attempt

telnet <computername.computerdomain....>

gives error: "Host name lookup failure"

Despite that, ping is working. Attempt to telnet using number address
of the same remote computer is successfull.

Another thing. Shutting down FVWM manager as a root also shuts down
PPP connection.

Please help.

Andrei

by **Brian McCaule** » Sat, 05 Jul 1997 04:00:00

> telnet <computername.computerdomain....>

> gives error: "Host name lookup failure"

> Despite that, ping is working. Attempt to telnet using number address
> of the same remote computer is successfull.

Check that all files in /etc are publically readable (except, of course,
the shadow password files if you have them).

In particular host.conf, hosts, resolv.conf.

--

. _\\__[oo from | Phones: +44 121 471 3789 (home)

. l___\\ /~~) /~~[ / [ | PGP-fp: D7 03 2A 4B D8 3A 05 37...
# ll l\\ ~~~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ | http://wcl-l.bham.ac.uk/~bam/

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