[Novices] networking issue

[Robert G. Brown]

>On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 11:38 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
>>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 :)
>>>>>Adding "linserv.localdomain" seemed to do it.  Thanks. 
>>>>>"Or what?" qua placeholder or uninitialized variable...?
>>>>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.
>>>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.
Strange.... I'm leaving this to  someone else, I do not exactly understand 
this or any relation to previous problems, and lack of time prevent additional 
comment.

>OK. I think I've got DI-614+ figured out. I had to set
>linserv.localdomain to receive its IP address from the router and have
>the router assign it (using MAC number) the fixed IP--rather than having
>the computer set with the fixed IP AND having the router try to assign
>it.
This may well work, but is too convoluted for my taste.

>But /etc/hosts has changed back to its original again. This just causes
>the annoying notice at log-in. So since I won't be logging into this
>machine that often maybe I'll just live with it.
I am not familiar with every little nuance of Suse configuration, but I would 
expcect that there is a way to configure /etc/hosts so that this change 
becomes persistant. I'll leave it to people with more familiarity in Suse to 
address this one.

							Regards,
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