[Novices] networking issue

[Eric Beversluis]

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 10:48 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> 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

When I installed last night I left the default host name, as Adam
suggested we could change it later. So can I in fact do that? I tried
changing "host name" on the DNS tab at "Network Configuration" in
"Network Device Control."  This is what resulted in the /etc/hosts entry
with linserv tacked on to the end of the line. It doesn't seem to have
actually changed the name of the host, however. Is there an issue here
that needs to be addressed?
EB
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