On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 09:17 -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > I have configured a linux box running FC2 to use static addressing. > The machine was originally installed with FC2 to use dhcp and later I > switched the addressing mode to static ip addressing from the network > control panel. The system seems to have normal network access but I > am perplexed by the contents of /etc/hosts which now are of the form... > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain mydomainname.domain localhost mydomainname > > Is this expected or a result of originally configuring the machine for dhcp? > There appears to be no entry in /etc/hosts with the actual ip address of > mydomainname.domain so I assume it is always gotten by dns. Thanks in > advance for any comments as I want to make sure this is really the correct > configuration for a static addressed machine. No. Have had to edit /etc/hosts in such situations to correct problems. If there's a slick GUI way to do it someone else will have to comment - I'm an old command-line guy. My /etc/hosts looks something like: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.2 myhostname.mydomain myhostname Phil
