"Verifying DNS setting" message during startup of Xfce

[jan]

Hi!

Yes we got quite OT :) Thanks for all the informations. My Xfce is not
complaining about my internet addres any more.

Ciao
Jan

On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 12:41, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> jan wrote:
> 
> >Hey!
> >
> >I thought that once I'm connected via DHCP and my computer name is
> >"laura" I should be able to ping my computer:
> >
> >$ ping laura
> >
> >and above command should be pinging IP address received via DHCP ...
> >should it work like this or should not ? I think long ago whne I was
> >using Windows it was working like that.
> >  
> >
> no, the above command should be pinging whatever it resolves to.  and 
> without an entry in /etc/hosts, it won't resolve to anything.  
> non-standard weirdo windows behavior isn't exactly the model we go by 
> here.  if you really need to know your IP address, use 'ifconfig'.  i 
> can't imagine that you'd need to ping yourself that often... or ever 
> (aside from network troubleshooting).
> 
> anyway, we're getting quite a bit OT.  just put 127.0.0.1 in, and all 
> will be fine.
> 
>     -brian
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