>My guess is that it's a dummy, "for example" kind of thing. Oh! Now >I see that you changed the previous FQDN. Besides, it should have been >commented out if it were.
Yes, "host.domain.com" was the FQDN of the affected host. I saw it and commented it out immediately. >Hmmm. Are you on a LAN? Or just using ppp? Or neither? What do On a LAN, actually two. One LAN "private", the other is a cable modem. The affected machine doesn't use any NIS(+) services. But resolv.conf contains the domain and DNS server of the cable provider. >base-config when it asked you the networking questions? And just >what _was_ that FQDN? (enquiring minds want to know...) I must admit here that this is a different distro Linux machine. I knew that I would get good answers here, so I just asked. :) >I wonder why it doesn't have >127.0.0.1 localhost loghost loopback lo lo0 >or something like that. It does, I just didn't show the whole file, but only the strange-looking line. I was solely interested in why the heck there is an entry for 0.0.0.0?! That's the universal all-matching IP, isn't it? Never seen such an entry before... TIA Sven
