On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 08:03, Roger Grosswiler wrote: > so, strangerwise, i choosed my hosts-file and changed the 127.0.0.1-entry. to the following > > 127.0.0.1 my_hostname my_hostname.my_domain.tld localhost No, do not do that, that is not correct. It may work, but it is not the correct way to do it. The /etc/hosts file is a manual coupling between static IP-numbers and hostnames (in fqdn and short form), remaining from the god old days of flat files for hostnames, and without DNS servers etc. The IP-number 127.0.0.1 has the hostname localhost.localdomain, or, in short form, localhost. This is *the* name corresponding to the IP number 127.0.0.1. The 127.0.0.1 IP-number has no other hostname, so no other hostname should be placed at that line in the /etc/hosts file. If you have other static IP-numbers, whose name you know, you may *add* these to /etc/hosts, but do *not* alter the 127.0.0.1 line (as it is correct as written in the pristine file.) If you use dyndns, or whatever, the coupling between IP-number and hostname is taken care of via the DNS system, so make sure that your /etc/resolve.conf file contains valid information about the DNS servers you use. I.e. static information about IP-numbers/hostnames goes into /etc/hosts (with an un-altered 127.0.0.1 line), and dynamic IP-numbers/hostnames is taken care of by the DNS system set up via /etc/resolv.conf /Lars -- Lars E. Pettersson <lars@xxxxxxxx> http://www.sm6rpz.se/
