Re: [tlug] Notebook Question

[Sam Tilders <sam@example.com>]

On Sat, 14 Sep 2002 06:06 pm, Godwin Stewart wrote:
> Finally, you have to create the entry for new_name in your /etc/hosts
> otherwise you *will* run into problems with applications which require the
> machine's IP - X is one.

Also, because it always expects to be able to resolve the name, 
RH7.3 setup seems to put the hostname given during setup in /etc/hosts for you 
as 127.0.0.1, this can be both confusing and annoying depending on what you 
use the machine for.

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