[Novices] networking issue

[Eric Beversluis]

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 15:21 +0000, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 10:12:15 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> 
> >When I log on to my new Fedora 4 server I get this message:
> >
> >"Could not look up interned address for linserv.local domain. This will
> >prevent GNOME from operating corectly. It may be possible to correct the
> >problem by adding linserv.localdomain to the file /etc/hosts."
> >
> >Right now /etc/hosts has: "127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> >linserv"
> >
> >Should I replace this line with: "127.0.0.1 linserv.localdomain linserv
> >linserv"?
> Add " linserv.local" to the end of that line, and let's see what happens.
> 
> Or what? 
> Almost never a realistic option :)
> 							Regards,
> 							---> RGB <---

Adding "linserv.localdomain" seemed to do it.  Thanks. 
"Or what?" qua placeholder or uninitialized variable...?

EB
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