On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 23:07 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Thursday 11 May 2006 22:58, Andrew Packer wrote: > > /etc/hosts looks like this: > > > > ABC.DEF.1.3 marian > > ABC.DEF.1.2 andrew > > 127.0.0.1 logcabin localhost > > > > (Sorry to be coy with the ABC.DEF, but I don't know whether it > > is > > considered bad form to post one's internal network addresses on > > a public forum.) Logcabin's non-loopback address is > > ABC.DEF.1.4. > > Could you tell us what happens if you change /etc/hosts to:- > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > ABC.DEF.1.2 andrew > ABC.DEF.1.3 marian > ABC.DEF.1.4 logcabin > > I think that that will fix your problem. >
Sorry, I left something out that I had put into my original message (that the list server bounced because I sent it from the wrong account). I had actually done almost what you've suggested: given the name logcabin and the alias localhost to both 127.0.0.1 and ABC.DEF.1.4. Or I had tried. Each time I added the 127.0.0.1 line, the ABC.DEF.1.4 line disappeared, and vice-versa. I just gave it another stab, calling 127.0.0.1 localhost and ABC.DEF.1.4 logcabin, but the Gnome Network Administration Tool (system-config-network) wouldn't retain more than three lines. I hand-edited the /etc/hosts file with 127.0.0.1 as localhost and ABC.DEF.1.4 as logcabin, rebooted: same hangup. I changed the 127.0.0.1 line to read 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost, rebooted: same hangup. I've made sure the 127.0.0.1 line is the first line in /etc/hosts. I note that what the Gnome Network Admin. Tool reports in its Hosts tab doesn't agree with /etc/hosts (and /etc/hosts is not being changed by the system), so from where is the GNAT getting its information? And why should a dodgy GUI tool matter anyway? (At this point my brain is threatening industrial action, so I'll look at the machine again in the morning.) Thank you for the assistance. =====Andrew
