> My /etc/hosts file did not have an entry for my hostname "myhost";
there was ONLY an entry for "myhost.mydomain.com".

If gnome-system-tools does this then it has a bug.  (I don't dare install or 
run the 
GNOME network configurator on my machine.  In the past it would utterly botch
Debian/Ubuntu configuration files.  Perhaps things have improved in recent 
years.)

The entry for myhost in /etc/hosts (where "myhost" is the system hostname, i.e.,
the content of /etc/hostname and the output of the "hostname" command) should 
be:

   <IP address> myhost.mydomain.com myhost

or

   <IP address> myhost

if the machine doesn't have a permanent FQDN.

The IP address should be the machine's permanent IP address if it has
one and 127.0.1.1 if it does not.

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[Hardy] network-admin settings to DHCP do not work
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