What's an FQDN? The 192.168.1.1 address would be my router's gateway
address. I was a bit surprised that they used xxx.xxx.1.1 since I was
under the impression that one range of private addresses is the
192.168.0.xxx address range.
-Alex
Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than Hardware gets faster!
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it
said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux." - Anonymous
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> I don't know if this will help you or not but it sounds like you're having
> a problem similar to what happened to me. The solution for me was to make
> my hostname be a FQDN in my hosts file. My machine is called syslang and I
> have no domain. So I added the following to my hosts file:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
> 192.168.0.1 syslang syslang.localhost.localdomain
>
> Now it comes up quicker than a greased whatever. I don't know if this is
> overkill or not. It might be that I could get away with
>
> 192.168.0.1 syslang syslang.localdomain
>
> But give it a shot and lemme know if it helps. I suspect that this should
> be in some FAQ somewhere.
>
> --
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> -Stranger things have happened but none stranger than this. Steven W. Orr-
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>
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Alex Hewitt USG wrote:
>
> =>A few days ago I bought a LinkSys DSL/cable modem firewall router for my
> =>home lan which is connected to Mediaone through a cable modem. I decided
> =>to modify my system's setups to use DHCP. The LinkSys router acts as a
> =>DHCP server and each system as it comes on-line queries the server and
> =>gets both an IP address (in the 192.168.1.* range) and the DNS server
> =>addresses for Mediaone.
> =>
> =>However, when I tried to setup my Linux system, the system hung when it
> =>tried to start sendmail and then hung again when it got to the Apache
> =>httpd daemon. I waited for the services to timeout and once I was able to
> =>login, I tried to start X which hung trying to get the host's IP address.
> =>I was temporarily able to correct all of this by editing my /etc/hosts
> =>file and adding the system's hostname and the IP address that the DHCP
> =>server had given it (specifically 192.168.1.101). Somehow this doesn't
> =>quite seem correct. I would expect X to get the IP address of the local
> =>host by some other means than either DNS or the hosts file. Perhaps all of
> =>these services should be using the localhost address?
> =>
> =>Any ideas would be welcome,
> =>
> =>-Alex
> =>
> =>
> =>Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than Hardware gets faster!
> =>
> =>"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it
> =>said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux." - Anonymous
>
>
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