On Saturday 01 March 2003 12:20 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: > > > But you are complaining about the wrong issue. The hostname should > > > *not* be set to localhost.localdomain. If it has not been configured by > > > the user it should be localhost. Hardcoding is the wrong approach, > > > since it *will* result in it breaking again some time. > > > > > > What needs to be done is that if `hostname` does not resolve, then > > > 127.0.0.1 `hostname` > > > should be added to /etc/hosts > > > > > > This would solve it in all possible cases (but could take a few seconds > > > to test). But what happens if the user changes their hostname? Should > > > the entry be removed?
Speaking of which, I'll have some preliminary information on my testing to post later tonight. SInce it is a lot of info, should I post it in one long message or break it up. I'll say one thing now, no matter what network configuration I have used, accepting the defaults of the installer and NOT running drakconnect allow GNOME to function properly. As soon as I run drakconnect, under any configuration I've tested so far, GNOME cannot resolve the host. -- Greg
