Re: tlug-digest V1 #105

["A.Tomita,Jr." <Alberto@example.com>]

 > >From owner-tlug@example.com, on 1/4/96 7:18 PM:
 > 
 > Somehow this turned into a Windows '95 discussion thread.  But 
 > since both Ted and Jim are into Windows '95 now, thought I would
 > ask a Win '95 question.  (I'm back on Linux now...)    
 > Whenever I access beehive.twics.com (HP 9000 server)
 > from my Windows '95 
 > setup it now corresponds to 192.135.222.23 which is the wrong machine that
 > is the IP of the Windows '95 machine.  It
 > just started to flake out during the middle of a Netscape session.  No
 > matter how many times I reboot the sucker it still thinks that 
 > its name is beehive.twics.com  
 
 > DNS, gateway, and individual IP are all set correctly.  Every other
 > machine on the net agrees with me  that beehive.twics.com corresponds to
 > 192.135.222.9
 > 
 > I figure that the ARP table of Win '95 got messed up somehow and all
 > I need to do is clear it or wait for 15 minutes or something.  
 > How do I force a clear to the Win '95 equivalent of an ARP
 > table?

Did you set up a HOSTS file in your Win95 machine? If not, try writing
both machines IP addresses and hostnames in a ASCII file (just line the
/etc/hosts of a Unix machine), save it as HOSTS and put in your Windows
directory.

-tomita.

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