Dialup setup -- hosts file!?

[Anas Mughal <anas_mughal summithq com>]

Hi,

In my initial attempts to setup Linux to dialup to my ISP, I changed my
hosts file.
I left the original line intact as follows:

127.0.0.1       localhost       localhost.localdomain

However, according to the initial guidance I received, I was instructed
to add another line to
my hosts file. So, now my hosts looks something like this:

127.0.0.1       localhost       localhost.localdomain
0.0.0.0        somethinghere.host          host

(I don't remember right now that I have in place of
'somethinghere.host'.)

The second line looks wrong to me. I have trying to find some
documentation to help me with setting up hosts file. I couldn't find
anything.

I am not trying to do anything fancy at all. Just using my machine as a
single user machine. Nothing special at all. No external machine needs
to know my machine. Please let me know if I need the second line at all.

The reason I am concerned about this are two problems I am facing:

(1) Upon connecting to my ISP, my unix prompt changes as follows:

       from
  localhost anas$
       to
  209-102-130-190 anas$

   Where as '209-102-130-190' reflects the dynamic IP address assigned
by the ISP.

(2) Any website I try to access takes a lot more time than it usually
does on Win95.

I don't know if the setup in hosts file is causing these two problems.

Thank you all for your help and advice.

-- anas mughal

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