[Novices] networking issue

[Eric Beversluis]

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 10:35 -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 :)
> > 							Regards,
> > 							---> RGB <---
> 
> Adding "linserv.localdomain" seemed to do it.  Thanks. 
> "Or what?" qua placeholder or uninitialized variable...?
> 
> EB
Oops! When I rebooted, /etc/hosts had reverted to its pre-change
content. So my change worked when I logged out and logged back in, but
not when I rebooted.

EB
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