On 5/8/06, Gustin Johnson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Localhost should point to the 127.0.0.1 entry in /etc/hosts. The actual
host name usually points to the IP of the box.
On my K/Ubuntu and Debian boxen, /etc/hostname exists for all of them,
so something weird happened.
The format of the /etc/hostname file is simple, just the short name, no
options, no long domain names, nothing.
The hosts file is a basically used to resolve names on the LAN, without
using DNS.
Once you have the hostname in the /etc/hostname file, reboot and all
should be well.
Cheers,
Mitchell Brown wrote:
> If I change it in /etc/hosts then localhost will no longer work if i
> type in "http://localhost" will it. This sounds like a bad idea as
> localhost should always point to the local machine, yes?
>
> On 5/8/06, *Darren L* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
> check the network config file.
>
> check under /etc/hostname (if it exists)
>
> check /etc/hosts
>
>
>
> On 5/8/06, *Mitchell Brown* < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> wrote:
>
> Hi, sorry for frequent posting but this is something that has vexed
> me forever!
>
> localhost being the hostname sucks. Now, I can goto a terminal and
> do "hostname mynewhostname" as root and it changes it. For that
> session. As soon as I reboot its back to localhost!!!! Why? How can
> I change it? I know in U/Kubuntu you set it during the install, and
> it actually sticks but thats the only distro so far that I've seen!!!
>
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