My machine != localhost.localdomain?

Gilbert Sebenste sebenste at weather3.admin.niu.edu
Mon Oct 8 19:55:49 UTC 2007


On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Robert Locke wrote:

> Not sure if this will work, but try swapping the order in /etc/hosts so
> it looks like:
>
> 127.0.0.1  localhost.localdomain localhost weather.admin.niu.edu weather
>
> Something might be doing a reverse lookup and getting upset at the
> "first name" not being localhost.localdomain....

I played around with it, and what fixed it was saying 127.0.0.1 was 
just localhost.localdomain. Then the error messages stopped.

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Gilbert Sebenste                                                     ********
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