Changing host name
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Tue Apr 6 19:42:12 UTC 2010
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.
>
> I'm changing the hostname by the Network control applet in Gnome, and
> have checked that /etc/sysconfig/network and it lists the following
>
> NETWORKING=yes
> HOSTNAME=feddesk
>
> ifconfig shows
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:D1:7F:B3
> inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fed1:7fb3/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:101 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:13048 (12.7 KiB) TX bytes:258 (258.0 b)
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:1320 (1.2 KiB) TX bytes:1320 (1.2 KiB)
>
> I cant understand why the act of changing the hostname would kill the
> network, has anyone got any ideas?
>
> --
> Michael Thompson
> http://maverickapollo.wordpress.com
>
Does your /etc/hosts file also have an entry for the hostname.
If you don't then the entry in the network file can't resolve the
ip_address of the hostname to set up the connection.
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