Brendan O'Connor wrote: > > Looking further, I found out that my cable isp does not offer persistent > hostnames. I checked what the hostname is under windows, and it's > 'NAME.mn.rr.comDEST' which doesn't seem to mean anything (nor work with > linux...) Any suggestions at all would be very helpful! Thanks! > --
Well NAME should be the hostname linux wants.The rest is just part ofthe subdomain_name .Try giving that.It may be possbile(altough not likely) that no hostname is required in which case just comment that line with hostname in /etc/network/interfaces.

