According to ve1drg: While burning my CPU.
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> Does anyone know how to get around this failure where linux comes back and
> says 'gethostbyname failed for linux'???
> My HOSTNAME file says my host name is linux.ve1drg.ampr.org, and when I
> enter 'hostname' at the prompt I get 'linux' only back. I wonder if that
> could be the problem or does it have anything to do with this error?
Hello Ted.
Its not linux that is returning 'gethostbyname failed' but i would imagen
'named'. The answer is possably a misconfiguration in either
/etc/hosts or /etc/hosts.conf you would need an entery in /etc/hosts as
follows.
44.135.34.201 linux.ve1drg.ampr.org linux.ve1drg
On another note slackware "cuts" the hostname like
/bin/hostname `cat /etc/HOSTNAME | cut -f1 -d .`
which would result in a prompt like you report,
linux$
I cant remember which distribution you have, but i do remember you having a
lot of problems with named, PPP and routing!!.
I read the gethostbyname man page which suggests that you have the above
misconfiguration.
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> Ted Gervais [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coldbrook, Nova Scotia
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Regards Richard.
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