having trouble with hosts file

[Jason Viloria]

Scott wrote:
> Hi Rick,
>
> When you say ip address refering to the hosts file is that the ip 
> address the router sees or the actual internet address of the server?
>
> Scott
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Stevens" <rstevens at internap.com>
> To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 12:13 PM
> Subject: Re: having trouble with hosts file
>
>
>> On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 00:23 -0500, Scott wrote:
>>> Hello there,
>>>
>>> How should a hosts file look if you want it to be called pilotalk 
>>> for the
>>> root log in and on the ZInternet?
>>
>> To set the host name permanently, edit /etc/sysconfig/network and change
>> the value for the "HOSTNAME=" parameter to the FQDN (fully qualified
>> domain name).  For example, to make it pilotalk.mydomain.com:
>>
>> HOSTNAME=pilotalk.mydomain.com
>>
>> That will take effect on a reboot.  To change it immediately, use
>> "hostname pilotalk.mydomain.com".  It won't show up in the prompts until
>> you log out and back in as the hostname is picked up by your shell when
>> you log in.
>>
>> The /etc/hosts file should contain the IP address of the machine, some
>> whitespace (tabs are normal), then the FQDN of the machine, then
>> whitespace, then the common (short) name, e.g.
>>
>> 10.20.30.40   pilotalk.mydomain.com   pilotalk
>>
>> As far as the Internet is concerned, that's a function of DNS and you
>> have to tell your DNS service what the FQDN and IP address is of the
>> machine.  That varies widely depending on who your DNS service is.
>>
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>
That would be the IP that you have configured on your machines eth0 or 
whichever interface you use. Do ifconfig as root to see what IP is set.

br
Jason