On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Ashish Sheth wrote: > Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:09:14 -0000 > From: Ashish Sheth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: [twincling] networking problem > > Hello friends, > > i was trying to setup BSNL connection on my desktop. > now i am getting this error. > > gethostbyname failed for homepc. > Name or service not knownCannot find my own host in hosts database to > qualify it! > Trying to continue with unqualified hostname. > DO NOT report broken Received: headers, HELO/EHLO lines or similar > problems! > DO repair your /etc/hosts, DNS, NIS or LDAP instead. > > how to solve this > > cheers > Ashish >
Looks like your pc is on DHCP. If so, please append the hostname to the entry matching 127.0.0.1 localhost in /etc/hosts file. Hope this helps. thanks Saifi.
