Re: [Cooker] Broken localhost resolution, zeroconf and drakconnect

2003-03-06 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frederic Lepied wrote: >>>The only hack to achieve something like choosing a hostname that will >>>be valid on your network, is to use zeroconf by setting a hostname in >>>.local. >> >>What about if your server supports Dynamic DNS (ie DHCP server mak

Re: [Cooker] Broken localhost resolution, zeroconf and drakconnect

2003-03-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 09:01 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > Somehow, running drakconnect changes a setting somewhere, that I cannot (or > have not been able to) find, that breaks localhost resolution. You'll note > that an entry has been made to /etc/hosts for the hostname I chose when I > ran drakconn

Re: [Cooker] Broken localhost resolution, zeroconf and drakconnect

2003-03-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 04:23 am, Buchan Milne wrote: > Ben Reser wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 07:43:15PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: > >>Sorry, just a query here, did you run 'host `localhost`', or 'host > >>`hostname`'. > >> > >>If 'host `hostname`' resolves, GNOME should work. If it does n

Re: [Cooker] Broken localhost resolution, zeroconf and drakconnect

2003-03-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 04:23 am, Buchan Milne wrote: > Ben Reser wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 07:43:15PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: > >>Sorry, just a query here, did you run 'host `localhost`', or 'host > >>`hostname`'. > >> > >>If 'host `hostname`' resolves, GNOME should work. If it does n

Re: [Cooker] Broken localhost resolution, zeroconf and drakconnect

2003-03-04 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ben Reser wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 07:43:15PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: > >>Sorry, just a query here, did you run 'host `localhost`', or 'host >>`hostname`'. >> >>If 'host `hostname`' resolves, GNOME should work. If it does not, GNOME >>should

Re: [Cooker] Broken localhost resolution, zeroconf and drakconnect

2003-03-04 Thread Ben Reser
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 07:43:15PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: > Sorry, just a query here, did you run 'host `localhost`', or 'host > `hostname`'. > > If 'host `hostname`' resolves, GNOME should work. If it does not, GNOME > should complain. That's not really true. Again the host command *ONLY* q

Re: [Cooker] Broken localhost resolution, zeroconf and drakconnect

2003-03-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 03 March 2003 12:43 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: > Greg Meyer wrote: > > 2) The only times that host `localhost` resolved successfully was when > > static > > > addressing was used. > > Sorry, just a query here, did you run 'host `localhost`', or 'host > `hostname`'. > > If 'host `hostname`' r

Re: [Cooker] Broken localhost resolution, zeroconf and drakconnect

2003-03-03 Thread Frederic Lepied
Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Frederic Lepied wrote: > > Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > First that's the normal behaviour to be able to set the hostname only > > in static IP mode. You can't choose by yourself a name and have it > > known by the other hosts on the netwo

Re: [Cooker] Broken localhost resolution, zeroconf and drakconnect

2003-03-03 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Buchan Milne wrote: > >>Also, what about drakconnect breaking localhost resolution for GNOME? > > I think Fred may have fixed it in the latest initscripts, you may want > to test. > Make that dhcp ... - -- |--Another happy Mandrake Club m

Re: [Cooker] Broken localhost resolution, zeroconf and drakconnect

2003-03-03 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Meyer wrote: > On Monday 03 March 2003 12:17 pm, Frederic Lepied wrote: > > Why is this possible in prior releases then? I could always set the host name > and still obtain a dhcp address. I am making a big issue about this because > a lot of pe

Re: [Cooker] Broken localhost resolution, zeroconf and drakconnect

2003-03-03 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frederic Lepied wrote: > Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First that's the normal behaviour to be able to set the hostname only > in static IP mode. You can't choose by yourself a name and have it > known by the other hosts on the network if t

Re: [Cooker] Broken localhost resolution, zeroconf and drakconnect

2003-03-03 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Meyer wrote: > > 2) The only times that host `localhost` resolved successfully was when static > addressing was used. > Sorry, just a query here, did you run 'host `localhost`', or 'host `hostname`'. If 'host `hostname`' resolves, GNOME should w

Re: [Cooker] Broken localhost resolution, zeroconf and drakconnect

2003-03-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 03 March 2003 12:17 pm, Frederic Lepied wrote: > First that's the normal behaviour to be able to set the hostname only > in static IP mode. You can't choose by yourself a name and have it > known by the other hosts on the network if the IP is given by DHCP. > > The only hack to achieve so

Re: [Cooker] Broken localhost resolution, zeroconf and drakconnect

2003-03-03 Thread Frederic Lepied
Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With all the discussion on Cooker about broken localhost resolution and the > new zeroconf setup, I took it upon myself to install Friday night's Cooker > about 14 times to test various scenarios. Since Buchan has been in the > center of this discussion

Re: [Cooker] Broken localhost resolution, zeroconf and drakconnect

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 March 2003 08:43 am, Greg Meyer wrote: Somehow, I missed the output for step 10. I added it to output.tgz and reposted. > > http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/network-test.summary > > http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/output.tgz -- Greg

[Cooker] Broken localhost resolution, zeroconf and drakconnect

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
With all the discussion on Cooker about broken localhost resolution and the new zeroconf setup, I took it upon myself to install Friday night's Cooker about 14 times to test various scenarios. Since Buchan has been in the center of this discussion, I conferred with him and he suggested I spam