Subj : Hello? To : David Drummond From : Steve Quarrella Date : Tue Oct 31 2000 07:18 am lg>>> Because.. if you give it a 'name'.. then.. when it wants to lg>>> know 'what' the system is referenced by the name (even if lg>>> it is itself), it will try to lookup that name in the DNS.. lg>>> if it isn't there.... well... :-) SQ>> Let me ask an ignorant question, then: Can I run this thing without SQ>> any kind of hostname? dd> Will you be running _any_ networking? Yep. --- * Origin: Il Vaticano * Lewisville, TX (1:393/9005.13) .