Re: help needed urgently with hostlookup failure ..please

2004-03-09 Thread Marcin
Hello,

 My /etc/hosts file reads like this :
 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain

yes because localhost and localhost.localdomain is completly different
if you have put sth in localdomain name.
put in /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhostlocalhost.localdomain

and btw: what do you have in /etc/host.conf ?
try:
order hosts,bind

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Re: help needed urgently with hostlookup failure ..please

2004-03-09 Thread Marcin
Hello,

 My /etc/hosts file reads like this :
 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain

yes because localhost and localhost.localdomain is completly different
if you have put sth in localdomain name.
put in /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhostlocalhost.localdomain

and btw: what do you have in /etc/host.conf ?
try:
order hosts,bind

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Marcin.




help needed urgently with hostlookup failure ..please

2004-03-08 Thread suhail
Hello people,
I am having problems with connecting my RedHat Linux box to the internet. I cannot seem to be able to even ping any other machine on the network. I do 
 telnet localhost. I get 
localhost: Host name lookup failure. 
I tried telnet 127.0.0.1. 
It waits for some time and then says:
telnet: unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out .
My /etc/hosts file reads like this :
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain 
Also when i restarted my machine, it waits for 5-10 minutes after coming to the Sendmail process and then finally reboots. Could you please help me out as I am not able to do anything about this for 2 days now.
Help truly appreciated.
Thanks
Suhail.




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Re: help needed urgently with hostlookup failure ..please

2004-03-08 Thread Rod Rodolico
Not sure about RedHat. However.

1)  Not being able to telnet to localhost may just mean that telnet is turned 
off. It is in
Debian by default, if I remember right. Or, you could have firewall rules that 
prevent telnet.
Try ping localhost and see if that works.

2)  Assuming localhost is up, look at ifconfig. Make sure your interface (eth0) 
is up. If not,
make sure the the module for your network card is up (lsmod).

3) Assuming your interface is up, type route to find your gateway. Try pinging 
your gateway.
If you can get a return from your gateway, your part of the network is set up 
correctly. It is
an issue with your provider.

4) Assuming you can successfully ping your gateway, try pinging an external 
system by ip. If
you can do that, you are likely not resolving. Check /etc/resolv.conf and make 
sure you have
one or more nameservers defined.

Rod

 Hello people,
 I am having problems with connecting my RedHat Linux box to the internet. I 
 cannot seem to be
 able to even ping any other machine on the network. I do
 telnet localhost. I get
localhost: Host name lookup failure.
 I tried telnet 127.0.0.1.
 It waits for some time and then says:
 telnet: unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out .
 My /etc/hosts file reads like this :
 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain
 Also when i restarted my machine, it waits for 5-10 minutes after coming to 
 the Sendmail
 process and then finally reboots. Could you please help me out as I am not 
 able to do anything
 about this for 2 days now.
 Help truly appreciated.
 Thanks
 Suhail.






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help needed urgently with hostlookup failure ..please

2004-03-07 Thread suhail
Hello people,
I am having problems with connecting my RedHat Linux box to the internet. I cannot seem to be able to even ping any other machine on the network. I do 
 telnet localhost. I get 
localhost: Host name lookup failure. 
I tried telnet 127.0.0.1. 
It waits for some time and then says:
telnet: unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out .
My /etc/hosts file reads like this :
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain 
Also when i restarted my machine, it waits for 5-10 minutes after coming to the Sendmail process and then finally reboots. Could you please help me out as I am not able to do anything about this for 2 days now.
Help truly appreciated.
Thanks
Suhail.




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