On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 15:18 -0400, Jack Gates wrote: > This is from my /etc/hosts file > > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > # that require network functionality will fail. > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain > > What is the proper way to change this file so that: > localhost.localdomain is replaced with something more useful for > identification of my FC5 box on my network? > leave the 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain in the /etc/hosts file add a line with localip domainname i.e. 192.168.1.1 printserver or 192.168.1.1 domain.com