[SPARCbook] on the road
    patl 
    patl at phoenix.volant.org
       
    Thu Nov 18 13:44:39 CST 1999
    
    
  
>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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