pinging without dial-up connection

[LionheartIV]

My HOSTS file (in windows-dir) looks like:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 home

When I open a dos-promt and type: 'ping home', then it gives me a pop-up to establish a dial-up connection.
When I allows this, its ping statistics for 127.0.0.1 are: all 4 packages received, 0 loss.

What can I do to change this so that no dial-connection is established, but the local site is found.

I am using windows98 and Apache1.3

Thanks in advance.

Richard

 

[SgtB]

Do you have a dial-up connection setup in windows (to your ISP for example)? Its a "feature" called "Dial-on-Demand" or something like that.

Here's a nice link on it. Reverse the instructions to disable it.

http://www.aasdcat.com/techsupport/win9x3.html

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http://www.security-forums.com

 

[LionheartIV]

SgtB,

Well, I did disable dial-up within 'Tools', 'Internet options' in IE60. However, there should be a nicer method.
Local addresses must be found locally (without dial-up connection) and internet addresses should be found on the internet using dial-up. All automatic.

127.0.0.1 localhost

I mean for the address:

http://localhost/

it also does not look on the internet.

127.0.0.1 home must get the same kind of finding. Thent I will be able to define several virtual hosts.

 

[SgtB]

Did disabling that solve your issue? If it did great!
I do agree that the local host should be found locally w/o windows thinking that it needs an interface to "ping from".
I will be honest though, as I've never heard of demand dialing coming up when trying to do a command line ping. sounds very strange to me. ________________________________________
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[LionheartIV]

Yes I can use al my defined local virtual hosts. So that's really great. What I do not like is that I need to start a dialupconnection for internet sites. IE should do that automatically. So if someone has a solution to this problem.
That would be great as well. Hope to hear from you.

Richard