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Re: [cobalt-users] how do you get a new member to upload without dns resolved?



On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, David Lucas wrote:

> You most likely will get flamed for your language and attitude for your
> first post.
>
> If you are using Windows, find the file called "hosts"
> After the last line, which is probably something like 127.0.0.1
> add a line that has the ip and the url with a tab between them as in
> XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX www.domain.com
>
If you are using Linux (most people?) put the same info in the
/etc/hosts file. It doesn't really require a tab, spaces work.
Caution make sure the ip.ad.re.ss is at the begining of the line.

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