networking & /etc/host

[Rotariu Bogdan]

Hello Philip,

When you installed fedora you where asked to give a hostname.
The hostname you gaved is "dhcppc4" that can not be resolved
change your host from /etc/sysconfig/network as :
HOSTNAME=my.domain.com
then edit /etc/hosts
and add something like :
192.168.0.1 my.domain.com my
(192.168.0.1 should be your ip and my.domain.com should be
subdomain.domain.tld and my should be just the subdomain)
then do a nice reboot and all will be OK :)

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Rotariu Bogdan
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip" <phil at noggle.biz>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:09 AM
Subject: networking & /etc/host


> Hey,
>
> If I'm not mistaken, when logging into my desktop I should be logged in
> to the "local host", at least that's what it used to do. I'm set up on a
> LAN (simple NetGear router on top of broad band) and when I log in to my
> desktop I'm actually logged in to what fedora calls "dhcppc4". As the
> login proceeds I get an error:
>
> "Could not look up Internet address for dhcppc4. This will prevent GNOME
> from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct the problem by
> adding dhcppc4 to the file /etc/hosts"
>
>  - however the login does succeed, though after an unusually long time.
> I'm guessing that I missed some step in configuring my wireless
> connection (I just re-installed on new hardware) and fedora gets
> confused and tries to log in to the router or something. Has anyone seen
> this before?? Any help would be great as I am far from proficient at
> networking with fedora.
>
> - Phil
>
>
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