On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 21:21 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > Two very odd things. First nano -w doesn't make it obvious to me > (though perhaps it should) how much is one line, how much another : > > GNU nano 2.0.6 > File: /etc/hosts > > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > # that require network functionality will fail. > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost localhost > ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 > > I have no idea where that 6 comes from, nor what it's doing there. The 6 is for IPv6 addresses. The instructions that came at the top of the hosts file were always crap. Quite often, the system had modified the hosts file before you ever read it, so the instructions were just plain wrong. And now, since IPv6 is being accommodated, there's *two* lines that ought to be left alone. Your hosts file should have the following two lines in it, without anything else in them: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 And if you do have your machine hostname and domain name in the hosts file, then it should *NOT* be stuck into either of those lines. It should be separate, and with the LAN IP address you associate with it. e.g. 192.168.1.20 twenty.localdomain twenty mailserver The format is numerical IP address, white space, full domain name, white space, then any aliases for that domain name (such as the short machine name, and any alternative names you use for it, all separated by white space). > Second, if I open Computer > Filesystem > /etc with nautilus, I > don't see hosts at all! The search button or search tool on my panel > finds 81 files whose name contains "hosts", one of which is > indeed /etc/hosts; but clicking on that does get it in gedit, which > looks much the same : I can't imagine why Nautilus doesn't display it, unless it is displaying it and not where you're looking (e.g. perhaps the sorting order of the list isn't by filename). -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
