Changing host name

[Marvin Kosmal]

OK

I don't think anyone thinks you are stupid...

Just people trying to be helpful..

Every time I post..  I get great answers and help.

YMMV

Marvin


On 4/6/10, Michael Thompson <maverickapollo at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 06/04/2010 16:05, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 15:51 +0100, Michael Thompson wrote:
>>
>>> When I change the hostname on my fedora 12 box, from the installation
>>> default of localhost.localdomain, the network dies until it is reset
>>> back.
>>>
>> "localhost" is assumed always to exist and to be bound to 127.0.0.1 (see
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localhost). You can of course give your
>> machine another name as well (just add additional names to the localhost
>> line in /etc/hosts), but you can't remove the meaning of localhost
>> without breaking things.
>>
>> poc
>>
>>
> Yup, I knew that. I'm changing the network name, not localhost. The
> hosts file reads:
>
> 127.0.0.1    localhost.localdomain   localhost    feddesk
> ::1     localhost.localdomain   localhost6    localhost    feddesk
>
> Believe it or not, I'm not stupid.
>
>
>
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