I also had this issue. I saw a good number of questions but no answers
so I am linking to my resolution in the forum.
http://newyork.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9839614#post9839614
It may not be a bug but hostname -f is definitely picker in 10.04 than
it was in 9.10. I duplicated the same
Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make
Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does
not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to
a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you
are facing, but
On 31.07.2010 14:29, Ian Barton wrote:
> 127.0.0.1 mail.wilkesley.net
> 192.168.0.30mail.wilkesley.net firewall.bantercat.co.uk
This is terribly wrong. Should be:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.0.30mail.wilkesley.net firewall.bantercat.co.uk
Antonio,
Thanks for the feedback. Attached is the information you requested. The
computer has a static ip address of 192.168.0.30. It has bind9
installed, which is configured the same as my primary DNS server, which
it will eventually replace. The computer 192.168.0.32 is my secondary
DNS. As far
This is evolving to a subject better discussed at the forums by the way,
as this seems to be a misconfiguration in the "stacklet".
The hostname is kept by the kernel in /proc/sys/kernel/hostname. In your
case, it is "ubuntu".
What hostname -f does, is the equivalent of running
getent hosts `host
Antonio,
It is a DNS error. Let me explain what I have done. I am using a pre-
built xen image from http://stacklet.com/
Download stacklet for Ubuntu lucid X64. Create a xen instance using the
image and login:
r...@ubuntu:~# hostname
ubuntu
r...@ubuntu:~# hostname -f
ubuntu.bantercat.co.uk
OK
Hello Ian!
The revealing message here is "hostname: Name or service not known" which means
there is a DNS issue on your system.
"hostname -i" and "hostname -d" should get you going on debugging this. Also
take a look at /etc/nsswitch.conf.
Of course the package installation shouldn't have barfe
