Julien Olivier wrote:
Hi
I've installed both FC1 and FC2 and, each time, I have noticed a very
annoying problem.
I have an ethernet ADSL modem. So, when I configure the network, I use
DHCP (my modem is also a DHCP server).
Then, when I try to log in GNOME for the first time, I get an error
message stating that I should had my hostname to /etc/hosts.
So, I fire vim and add my hostname (provided by my ADSL modem) to
/etc/hosts.
Then, I log in again, and everything works.
Now, my questions are:
- Why does GNOME need my hostname to be in /etc/hosts ?
I'm sure that they have their reasons. But, I don't think that its
required in /etc/hosts... Just reversible [that is, they can look up an
IP address for your hostname].
- Why isn't my hostname automatically added to /etc/hosts after the
connection is established ? Is there a technical reason to it ? Or is it
simply a bug that should be filed ?
- Or, alternativeley, is there a way to ignore the hostname provided by
the DHCP connection and just stick to localhost.localdomain ? I found a
similar option in Anaconda but it doesn't seem to work.
In my /etc/sysconfig/network file, I have the following:
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain
Then, my /etc/hosts file has:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
It works for me with DHCP.
Hope this helps....
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