Hari wrote: >On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Tomas Bodzar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Eh,I missed something.Look at /etc/hosts and $hostname >> Why is localhost.WORKGROUP localhost in /etc/hosts and >> mercury.my.domain in $hostname > >I have long suspected that this is the problem. I am a novice at this >and I have little understanding. I have gone through the man pages for >/etc/hosts but I could not figure out what exactly I was doing wrong. > >What should /etc/hosts read as? And what should the $hostname be? The >machine is to be named "mercury". > >> $sudo ifconfig fxp0 up >fxp0: warning: SCB timed out (x3) >fxp0: config command timeout > >Hari >
My (not so) humble opinion. /etc/hosts is the poor man's DNS -- what name to what IP ::1 localhost.foo.bar localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost.foo.bar localhost ::1 gw.foo.bar gw this-box 192.168.10.1 gw this-box gw.foo.bar 192.168.10.22 that-box Actually the local box can have a lot of names, all for the same IP. Looks like your hostname goes into /etc/myname
