[opendx-users] gethostbyname failure with exec

[Lloyd A Treinish]

I have a RH 7.1 system (laptop) using DHCP instead of a fixed ip address. I have installed the OpenDX 4.2 using the rpm provided by Dave Thompson on the binary download site. Efforts to start the exec fail because gethostbyname returned an error (ExHostToFQDN failed). I have localhost specified in /etc/hosts. Explicit specification of localhost or 127.0.0.1 in the hostname for DX also fails with this error. Any suggestions? There is probably an obvious solution and the problem seems vaguely familiar, but this is the first time I have used dynamic ip on Unix. I've not had this problem on dynamic ip on Windows. When the machine is run off the network, the exec is started up just fine and connects to the UI.