[Novices] networking issue

[Robert G. Brown]

On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 10:35:03 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:

>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 :)

>Adding "linserv.localdomain" seemed to do it.  Thanks. 
You're welcome. Looks like another "distro quirk" to me, nothing serious.

>"Or what?" qua placeholder or uninitialized variable...?
Sure. It's dangerous to hand me an opening like this. :)

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