Hello Philip, When you installed fedora you where asked to give a hostname. The hostname you gaved is "dhcppc4" that can not be resolved change your host from /etc/sysconfig/network as : HOSTNAME=my.domain.com then edit /etc/hosts and add something like : 192.168.0.1 my.domain.com my (192.168.0.1 should be your ip and my.domain.com should be subdomain.domain.tld and my should be just the subdomain) then do a nice reboot and all will be OK :) -- Rotariu Bogdan Sys admin Alterox Sistem WWW : www.alterox.ro mail : bogdan@xxxxxxxxxx phone : +40 740 140 301 -- Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such a case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply e-mail. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip" <phil@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:09 AM Subject: networking & /etc/host > Hey, > > If I'm not mistaken, when logging into my desktop I should be logged in > to the "local host", at least that's what it used to do. I'm set up on a > LAN (simple NetGear router on top of broad band) and when I log in to my > desktop I'm actually logged in to what fedora calls "dhcppc4". As the > login proceeds I get an error: > > "Could not look up Internet address for dhcppc4. This will prevent GNOME > from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct the problem by > adding dhcppc4 to the file /etc/hosts" > > - however the login does succeed, though after an unusually long time. > I'm guessing that I missed some step in configuring my wireless > connection (I just re-installed on new hardware) and fedora gets > confused and tries to log in to the router or something. Has anyone seen > this before?? Any help would be great as I am far from proficient at > networking with fedora. > > - Phil > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
