On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 14:26, William Hooper wrote: >>> 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. > > This is what Anaconda does if you put in a host name during the > install. Sure about that? This is what anaconda put in my /etc/hosts on a test machine that I set up last week (Fedora Core 2), given a hostname during install (can one give a hostname without also giving a IP-number?) I can give it a try setting it up as using DHCP also and see what happens then (have not seen the behaviour you mention before, but I may have missed something in how anaconda behaves, I seldom install from scratch :-) ----snip # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.1 maggie.home.rpz maggie ----snip > It is also perfectly valid if your machine is something like > a laptop using DHCP, which may or may not be connected to a network. Well, one may do that, but I would then place those after localhost, i.e. (disregard the line break, all should be on one line) 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost my_hostname.my_domain.tld my_hostname And I also so no point in adding hostnames to the 127.0.0.1 line if that hostname is connected to certain static IP-number. It is the better to add a line for that IP-number and hostname. The main point I would like to stress is, do not remove "localhost.localdomain localhost" on the 127.0.0.1 line, I think you agree on that. /Lars -- Lars E. Pettersson <lars@xxxxxxxx> http://www.sm6rpz.se/
