Somebody in the thread at some point said: > Hello, > > I'm doing some local HTML server tests in the 192.168.n.n range and > each time I ask for this address in Konqueror the system first attempts > to reach the ISP to finally find out that it's a local address. It's a > bit annoying for the principle of it. What would be a proper setting > (in resolv.conf ?) so that the system (Fedora Core 6) immediately > recognizes a localnet address (in this case it's the machine itself, > not even another machine on the localnet !) and does not bother calling > up the ISP to figure it out. - Thanks. Check that your local machine name appears in /etc/hosts on the same line as 127.0.0.1, eg 127.0.0.1 mymachine localhost.localdomain localhost -Andy