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List:       sparcbook
Subject:    [SPARCbook] on the road
From:       patl patl () phoenix ! volant ! org
Date:       1999-11-18 19:44:39
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>The other one stumped me for awhile until I figured it out.  I could
>connect to every web page I wanted except my own - the one sitting on my
>server on my LAN.  Then I realized - that server was listed in
>/etc/hosts, and the machine was trying to connect to it via the LAN
>connection rather than through the ppp link.  I've still got to test
>this, but I think that removing my server name from /etc/hosts will fix
>this.

This is more likely to be a routing problem.  I suspect it still has the
ethernet port set up with the IP address you use on your LAN; and routing
entries indicating that the rest of your network is accessable via that
interface.



-Pat

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