> I'm having trouble setting it up without an actual Internet connection. My
> HOSTNAME=goddard, verified by using '$>hostname' and the /etc/HOSTNAME file.
> But I keep getting e-mail from root from certain events that complaining
> "gethostname() cannot find host goddard". I can't "$>ping goddard" or
> "$>telnet goddard" either.
>
> I realize there is something to fix in my /etc/hosts file. I have only gone
> so far as to make up an IP address with goddard as the machine name. What
> else is there? What I've read so far all assume multiple machines or a
> connection on the Internet.
>
> Is there a way to map 'goddard' back to 'localhost'?
You might try the following lines in /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
127.0.0.1 goddard goddard.whateverdomain.domain_extension
xxx.x.x.x goddard goddard.whateverdomain.domain_extension
Okay, so domain extensions aren't really called extensions, they're
called top level domains but you see my point. Where I put in
xxx.x.x.x put in whatever IP address you made up (I'm assuming you
know you should be using 10.0.0.*).
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Bill Kocik
Information Systems
Medar, Inc.
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