[ale] Resolving

[Jason Lynn]

This is most likely a stupid question, but...
Since my cable modem has been down, I have been unable to resolve 
"localhost" and even the IP address on my internal NIC.  This may have been 
caused because I've been "tweaking" a few things.  :)  My question is, if 
I'm not running named, how does my computer resolve "localhost" and even my 
local IP address?  Would it normally go to the (now unreachable) DNS servers 
to resolve "localhost"?  How about my internal IP... the DNS server knows 
nothing about my internal addresses, so how are they resolved?  And why 
aren't they being resolved now (ie pinging 192.168.0.1 from 192.168.0.1 
isn't working, though pinging 192.168.0.1 from 192.168.0.2 IS working)?  
Like I said... stupid question... but I'd appreciate any insight.  Thanks.

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