Thanks, that helped, I inserted my i.p. for my isdn modem gateway, and I can
now ping the world.

I could use a good text for sys admin or something that describes all of the
files like 'hosts' or 'aliases' and how to use/modify them.

Ron

> From: abs <abs@purplei.com>
> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 09:58:29 +0000 (GMT)
> To: Ron Landrus <ronlandrus@yahoo.com>
> Cc: <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>, <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
> Subject: Re: pkgsrc -sup, mac68k
> 
> Make sure you local host's name is in /etc/hosts
> 
> 
> David/absolute  abs@purplei.com
> 
> On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Ron Landrus wrote:
> 
>> Dan,
>> 
>> Good call on missing a set, I installed misc.tgz, (I guessed which one) and
>> was able to create the coll.list file. And it has the text that yours has.
>> 
>> On to my next question, when trying to run sup, I type 'SUP -s -v' and the
>> response I get is;
>> 
>> 
>> SUP: Can't find my host entry
>> 
>> 
>> Do I need to create   '/etc/supfiles/coll.host' ?
>> 
>> 
>> Ron
>> ronlandrus@dynx.net
>>