Changing host name
Michael Thompson
maverickapollo at googlemail.com
Tue Apr 6 15:40:02 UTC 2010
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On 06/04/10 16:30, Marvin Kosmal wrote:
> 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
:)
Guess I should of put a smillie on that, it did'nt mean to sound like that.
>
>
> 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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>> Michael Thompson
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