[Novices] networking issue

[Eric Beversluis]

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 11:12 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> 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
Possibly final update: 
The command 'hostname' showed "linserv.localdomain" to be the hostname
the computer thinks it has.
I went into /etc/hosts and changed the existing line to: "127.0.0.1
linserv.localdomain linserv  linserv".
This seems to have solved the log-on problems.

I can now ping the router, but still can't get online: pinging
www.yahoo.com => "Network is unreachable." And the router log shows no
activity from this machine.  So that's leading me to believe that the
problem lies somewhere in how I have the router set for this machine, to
which I've given a fixed IP address. I'll explore that. Stay tuned.

EB

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