Re: What hostname do you use on your computer?

["David G. Miller" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Knute Johnson wrote:

> So now sendmail hangs on startup for about 2 minutes.  There must be 
> something else to set?
>
> Thanks,
>
> knute...
>
> [knute@knute ~]$ hostname
> knute
>
> [knute@knute ~]$ cat /etc/hosts
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> ::1     localhost.localdomain   localhost
> 192.168.3.5     knute
>
> [knute@knute ~]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network
> NETWORKING=yes
> NETWORKING_IPV6=yes
> HOSTNAME=knute
> [knute@knute ~]$
Make sure /etc/host.conf is set to "order hosts,bind".  If it is set to 
"order bind,hosts", the system still tries to use bind to resolve the 
hostname.

Cheers,
Dave

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