On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 22:24 +0800, Deepak Shrestha wrote: > After that I used the /etc/hosts and changed the settings and changed > my hostname from previous already. The hosts file doesn't set your hostname, it just associates DNS names and IP addresses. Elsewhere, the hostname is set. > Now my ISP's DNS was down and today they gave me a new DNS address. > This time I used again the graphical tool to set the new DNS address. > Reactivated the network card. What happened was my hostname was > changed from current name to previous one without my knowledge. I > didn't notice the problem till all other windows machines were unable > to reach the webpage hosted on it. Sounds like yet another issue. Those other PCs don't use its hosts file to find it, they use their own or a DNS server. You can blank out your hosts file, and it won't affect other PCs from finding it. What do you mean by they gave you a new "DNS address", though? They changed your hostname, IP address, told you to use different IP addresses to access their DNS servers at, or something else? > I had to reedit the /etc/hosts file to change my hostname and > reactivate the network card to fix the problem. > > This made me think that "system-config-network" doesn't rely on the > /etc/hosts files. It must have its own backup file which get rewritten > in /etc/hosts file after some modification # locate hosts |grep /etc /etc/hosts /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts ...[snip]... It's been a while since I played with dialup, but I think the idea was, during dialup to use one as a template, and modify the /etc/hosts while connected, then put it back as it was after disconnection. I can remember that malarkey with the /etc/resolv.conf file, but I can't really remember what changes were made to hosts files. If you edit, and restart the network, out of sequence, you might have a bit of confusion. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
