Just a pointer:
for /etc/hosts (or the equiv in NT (windir)\system32\drivers\etc\hosts)
(assume your I/F IP is 10.12.14.16)
---------------------------
127.0.0.1 localhost
10.12.14.16 thehost.mydomain.org mypc
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the order is somewhat important!!!!
(ip address) (FQDN) (and short or aliases here)
If you don't have a true / valid DNS for (an assumed) you fixed IP address
then and nslookup will fail.
i.e.: (I know it's a bad use of letters with M$ and all. hee hee ;) )
% nslookup
...
> set server (ip.address.of.server <- Not your own machine)
> set type=any
> 16.14.12.10.in-addr.arpa.
(some error message saying doesn't exist)
*** DNS.SERVER.whereever.org can't find 16.14.12.10.in-addr.arpa.:
Non-existent host/domain
> exit
%
You will also need to update your /etc/HOSTNAME to match your full name (not
just hostname)
----/etc/HOSTNAME-----------
thehost.mydomain.org
----end of /etc/HOSTNAME----
You also need to update the IP portion of your OS with the correct host name
% /bin/hostname thehost
You may also need to stop and restart certain services, for example
sendmail: (quick and dirty)
% ps aux | grep sendmail
root 73 0.0 5.2 ..... sendmail: accepting connections
root .................. grep sendmail
% kill -9 73
% /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q15m
If you don't have a FQDN, make one up (I jokingly for example: nodomain.org)
and have a host of myhost.nodomain.org.
As for the Java part I cannot help you there
-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas T. Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 1998 10:56 AM
To: Java-Linux Mail List
Subject: RMI binding bug
Can someone help me out, here? I'm sure that some of you have solved this
problem long ago. . . In fact, there is one thread in the Java-Linux
archives
that deals
with this. I tried putting my machine as the first line in /etc/hosts as
suggested:
xxx.xxx.x.2 MyHostName MyHostName.mydomain.com
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
but that didn't work.
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