Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With all the discussion on Cooker about broken localhost resolution and the > new zeroconf setup, I took it upon myself to install Friday night's Cooker > about 14 times to test various scenarios. Since Buchan has been in the > center of this discussion, I conferred with him and he suggested I spam > Frederic and Florin with this. So guys, if you are not the right people, > blame Buchan, and then please forward this on to the appropriate individual. > > I started looking into this when I noticed that I could not reset my hostname. > When accepting the defaults during installation, I get an assigned hostname > that is pretty dumb (dhcppc[x]). I know many home users will want to be able > to set the hostname to something fun, like Jock or Trusty, and will run > drakconnect to try and change it. Well, running drakconnect not only does > not change it, it breaks localhost resolution for GNOME. I therefore set out > on my quest. > > I have attached two files (also provided links in case you guys get > attachments stripped for some reason). One is a summary of my experiments, > the other is a tarball of the output files created during the process. > > I hope you guys can use this to fix whatever the problem is. I obviously > cannot test all network configurations, but mine is typical of many home > users. I don't know enough to really be helpful in actually fixing anything, > but I hope my investigation gives enough evidence to lead you to the problem > quickly. > > Some quick observations > 1) On my network with dhcp, running drakconnect broke localhost resolution for > GNOME. GNOME started without error usnig default settings. As soon as I ran > drakconnect, the next time GNOME started, it could not resolve localhost. > > 2) The only times that host `localhost` resolved successfully was when static > addressing was used. > > Let me know if you need anything else. I'd be happy to run the test again on > a specific setup to provide more info if necessary, although I obviously > don't want to do all of them again.
First that's the normal behaviour to be able to set the hostname only in static IP mode. You can't choose by yourself a name and have it known by the other hosts on the network if the IP is given by DHCP. The only hack to achieve something like choosing a hostname that will be valid on your network, is to use zeroconf by setting a hostname in .local. -- Fred - May the source be with you
