On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 23:09 -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
Ever since I upgraded FC3->FC4 my laptop system is ignoring everything in my /etc/hosts file. It worked fine in FC3. My /etc/nsswitch file contains the line:
hosts: files dns
Anyone else seeing this problem???
My computer isn't quite set up like yours, but I do have to say that at least Gnome doesn't ignore the /etc/hosts file. I installed FC4 on my machine, then went and changed the machine name in the network settings and restarted. When I logged into Gnome, it complained that it couldn't find my machine name in the /etc/hosts file. I'd never seen this behavior before... strange. I had to add the entry in manually, then Gnome quit complaining.
Did you remember to change your host and domain name in /two/ different places? System-config-network has a hosts listing--and maybe it reads /etc/hosts to do it. I had to add my new host name with the loopback address, and that's when Gnome stopped complaining to me about not being able to find the host name.
Temlakos
