I don't think so, I did a custom install, and installed the dns, web, and
ftp server rpms.  But I dont' think they are running.  how do i check?  what
file would they be in?  i checked inet.conf, and commented everything out
but telnet, and that didn't help.
----- Original Message -----
From: Edgar Allen <era@sky.net>
To: <kclug@kclug.org>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: kclug - hmm...what the?

> Michael Campbell writes:
> >
> >i tried doing that and it still happens.  i checked the file after
> >connecting and it automatically adds my hostname to it.  would that be
the
> >problem?  i still can't open any programs after it connects.
> >thanks,
> >Mike
> >
> If you are not running a name server you could hang.
>
> Are you running the caching name server which is one of the daemons
> supplied with RedHat ?
>
> The reason running either a full named or the caching server, I don't
remember
> its name at the moment, is a good idea is that they reduce the load
> on your upstream provider and resolve your own names-->IP address lookups
> faster. (You can visibly load web pages faster on a 56K dialup)
>
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