Re: [Cooker] Setting of name for 'localhost' is malfunctioning

2003-08-22 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Any comment on this??? Buchan Milne wrote: Damien Chaumette wrote: Well, there are mutliples cases : o static IP you set your HOSTNAME (/etc/sysconfig/network) o DHCP you can ask a name to your DHCP server (DHCP_HOSTNAME), and

Re: [Cooker] Setting of name for 'localhost' is malfunctioning

2003-08-22 Thread guran
On Friday 22 August 2003 14.21, Buchan Milne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Any comment on this??? Buchan Milne wrote: Damien Chaumette wrote: Well, there are mutliples cases : o static IP you set your HOSTNAME (/etc/sysconfig/network) o DHCP

Re: [Cooker] Setting of name for 'localhost' is malfunctioning

2003-08-20 Thread guran
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 18.53, Damien Chaumette wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (guran) writes: On Sunday 17 August 2003 13.24, Buchan Milne wrote: On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, guran wrote: Hi Hd.img installation per 20030817 VERSION Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20030816 21:26

Re: [Cooker] Setting of name for 'localhost' is malfunctioning

2003-08-20 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Damien Chaumette wrote: Well, there are mutliples cases : o static IP you set your HOSTNAME (/etc/sysconfig/network) o DHCP you can ask a name to your DHCP server (DHCP_HOSTNAME), and it'll return either this one or

Re: [Cooker] Setting of name for 'localhost' is malfunctioning

2003-08-18 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 17 August 2003 08:38 am, Buchan Milne wrote: BTW, does anyone know if tmdns is of any use? If all it's going to do is make `hostname` resolve on the local machine, we might as well use /etc/hosts for this. If the user has DHCP, chances are they have DNS, and tmdns is useless.

Re: [Cooker] Setting of name for 'localhost' is malfunctioning

2003-08-18 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 17 August 2003 08:38 am, Buchan Milne wrote: The only reason tmdns can be useful is in a network of machines *not* connected to the internet, which *don't* use DHCP, and which *don't* have DNS. Thus, IMHO, tmdns should

Re: [Cooker] Setting of name for 'localhost' is malfunctioning

2003-08-18 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: set HOSTNAME in /etc/sysconfig/hostname, in which case: /etc/sysconfig/network -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

Re: [Cooker] Setting of name for 'localhost' is malfunctioning

2003-08-17 Thread Buchan Milne
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, guran wrote: Hi Hd.img installation per 20030817 VERSION Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20030816 21:26 I have a firewall that runs a dhcpd on a Mdk 9.0. This is from my syslog: ( check out how postfix is trembling in respons to 'localhost',[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Cooker] Setting of name for 'localhost' is malfunctioning

2003-08-17 Thread guran
On Sunday 17 August 2003 13.24, Buchan Milne wrote: On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, guran wrote: Hi Hd.img installation per 20030817 VERSION Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20030816 21:26 I have a firewall that runs a dhcpd on a Mdk 9.0. This is from my syslog: ( check out how postfix is

Re: [Cooker] Setting of name for 'localhost' is malfunctioning

2003-08-17 Thread Buchan Milne
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, guran wrote: On Sunday 17 August 2003 13.24, Buchan Milne wrote: I was trying to report something that I thought was a bug. During installation of LAN i used the graphic set and to 'zeroconf' I added Pelles as the name with no dots. In syslog you can see that mdk

Re: [Cooker] Setting of name for 'localhost' is malfunctioning

2003-08-17 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 14:38:38 +0200 (SAST) Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only reason tmdns can be useful is in a network of machines *not* connected to the internet, which *don't* use DHCP, and which *don't* have DNS. Thus, IMHO, tmdns should only be started if DHCP leases are not