David,
Thanks for the reply. I agree completely that the problem suggests a
network config problem, but I can't find the source. the /etc/hosts file
is OK. when I am disconnected to the network, I can ping the localhost or
the real hostname successfully. I don't know linux much, but every file I
know of is configured to look in /etc/hosts before going to dns.
I think that RedHat 7.2 has some differences with prior versions in that an
ifconfig command does not seem to be saved on a reboot, so there may be
.conf files that I need to change, but at the moment I am at a loss on
where to look next. I'll be searching the /etc directory for now.
Thanks very much for your ideas.
Jon
At 09:25 AM 3/4/02 -0700, you wrote:
I have not had this problem. Is it possible that you don't have your
networking quite setup correctly? I would say that this error message is a
result of trying to connect to some named computer where its requiring a
dns lookup--since you're not on the network it can't resolve the name.
Make sure that you have your machine setup to do hosts based resolution
before dns and that your hosts file contains your machines name/ip address.
David
