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Mozillat trashing host file
From: "Daniel Sichel" <daniels () Ponderosatel com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 08:19:00 -0700
Upon return, when she tries to go to her specified homepage, it
instead
tries to access the hotel's (I'm assuming here) proxy or autorization server - no, no proxy settings set.
The hotel DHCP probably over wrote your hosts or DNS resolver file. On Slackware that would be /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf
As a standard part of our laptop windblose install we pre populate the host file with the business related entries we need (no arp cache poisoning please) then make the host rile read only. You'd be amazed at the headaches this simple prescaution prevents. Dan Sichel Network Engineer Ponderosa Telephone daniels () ponderosatel com (559) 868-6367 _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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