On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 14:48, Jeff Vian wrote: > For this, you are slightly wrong. Each IP address line lists all names > that are applicable. If you use multiple hostnames with the same IP > they should all be listed on that line in /etc/hosts. Yes, correct, I should have mentioned that... A given IP-address can have several names, all these can/should be placed after the IP-number associated with them. One has to careful with the 127.0.0.1 line though, as it is easy to mess things up by removing localhost.localdomain, and/or localhost for that line. > Also, when doing an install with FC2, FC1, and earlier RedHat versions, > the hostname given during the install is (in my experience) usually also > placed on the 127.0.0.1 line of this file. As I mentioned in my anser to William Hooper I have not seen this myself, but that is probably because I seldom install from scratch, and when I do, I have static IP-numbers and hostnames that gets put correctly in /etc/hosts (se my answer to William Hooper.) /Lars -- Lars E. Pettersson <lars@xxxxxxxx> http://www.sm6rpz.se/
