On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Paul Miller wrote: > solar wrote: > > default: Host name lookup failure (problem :() > > Are you connected to the Internet in any way? If so, do you have a > nameserver supplied in /etc/resolve.conf?
One way to avoid this error is to add a line in /etc/hosts for your hostname, pointing to 0.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1 or your static IP address if any. Some parts of the system depend on knowing how to contact itself via the network, even if that network is only the 1 machine. For example: 0.0.0.0 foobar.nowhere.com foobar
