Since when do I have to have a host entry for my machine in order to
run httpd? I computer thinks its hostname is 'bartleby'. There is no
DNS entry for it, nor an /etc/hosts entry, since it gets its IP via
DHCP. When I try to launch Apache, it complains:
[Thu May 17 17:36:23 2001] [alert] httpd: Could not determine the
server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
And it exits with an entry in the error log:
[Thu May 17 17:36:23 2001] [alert] mod_unique_id: unable to
gethostbyname("bartleby")
This is new; previously it launched OK. If I set ServerName in
httpd.conf, the complaint to stderr goes away, but the log entry is
still there and the server still exits.
I reckon I can add bartleby to /etc/hosts as an alias for localhost, but
it looks like one part of the server thinks it can deal, and another is
bailing out. Anyway, this used to work.
-Fred
