System asks ISP for local address

John Pierce john.j35 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 20:46:10 UTC 2007


> Check that your local machine name appears in /etc/hosts on the same
> line as 127.0.0.1, eg
>
> 127.0.0.1       mymachine localhost.localdomain   localhost
>
I personally would not set my machine name to 127.0.0.1.  I would
leave that as just localhost.localdomain localhost.

I would then set the 192.168.n.n mymachine

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John
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