Help on DNS mistake ?

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 04 July 2004 11:10, Philippe wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have the well-known problem with Openoffice which does a
> dns-lookup when you launch it or open a document. This is taking a
> long time (half minute) and I think the problem is some mistakes
> with localdomain, etc on my computer. By the way, I am on a dialup
> connection.
>I have a domain name and an IP adress, but all this for my private
> local network. IP : 192.168.0.1 / Domain name : AAA
>
>OO is making a DNS-lookup , using the DNS server of my dialup
>connection, to try to find my private domain-name AAA.
>
>>>From Ethereal : (UDP)
>
>DNS Standard Query : localhost.AAA
>DNS Standard Query Response : No such name
>
>My /etc/hosts :
># Do not remove the following line, or various programs
># that require network functionality will fail.
>192.168.0.1     P4.AAA
>127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain
>
>I know I write something wrong, or I missed something. But where ?
>Thanks to help me ;-)

>From those lists, it appears you should see if you can actually make 
the names all match?  localhost.AAA is not P4.AAA and neither is AAA.

>
>Philippe
>--
>Philippe, Chiangmai, Thailand(e)

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