As Michael pointed out, I would be changing the hosts file anyways. I was going to post this earlier, but only had access to mail from a phone.
I'd be inclined to drop localhost.localhost and localhost from the ipv6 section of the hosts file.. On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Michael Chesterton <[email protected] > wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:35 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, June 20, 2012 3:34 pm, [email protected] wrote: > > > What does hosts file look like on this client? > > > > Michael: > > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost.localdomain > localhost4 > > localhost4.localdomain4 localhost my_hostname > > ::1 localhost.localdomain localhost.localdomain localhost6 > > localhost6.localdomain6localhost my_hostname > > > It wasn't the cause of your problem, but it's not the best idea to put > my_hostname on the localhost line. > If you have a static ip for eth0 add a separate line like > > 1.2.3.4 my_hostname.my_domain my_hostname > > where 1.2.3.4 is your eth0/wlan0/whatever address. If you don't have a > static ip, say a roaming laptop, use > > 127.0.1.1 my_hostname.my_domain my_hostname > > That way forward and reverse lookups will make sense. If you do that, don't > forget to remove my_hostname from the localhost{,6} line. > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
