Some senseless babbling from Roy J. Tellason to All
on 09-22-99  11:04 about name resolution issue?...

 RJT> Been playing with web stuff since yesterday...

 RJT> I'm running the Apache server on the Linux box,  and have started to
 RJT> look at some of the html doc files with a browser.  I was pleased to
 RJT> find that it was no big deal to fire up the w95 box and use IE on there
 RJT> to do the same,  too. 
 RJT> However,  I'm running into some kind of a snag with trying it from the
 RJT> OS/2 box using Netscape.  I can type in http://(IP number)/index.html
 RJT> and get the page across and displayed just fine.  But when I type in
 RJT> http://(machine name)/index.html,  it sits there with the status line
 RJT> on the bottom saying "Connnect: Looking up host: (machine name)..." and
 RJT> isn't apparently doing a damn thing.

 RJT> Do I need a "hosts" file or something similar on the OS/2 box?  My
 RJT> previous messing around with TCP/IP stuff (mostly ftp) has been all
 RJT> using numbers up until this point.

The address needs to be a resolvable host name or an IP address.  The 
NetBIOS machine name is not a resolvable host name, unless you make it that 
way.  Using a hosts file would work well enough.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


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