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Yminus
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 Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:00 pm Post subject: [solved] hostname --fqdn => Host name lookup failure |
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Regardless of which custom host name I write into /etc/conf.d/hostname, this is the result:
| Code: | hostname --fqdn
hostname: Host name lookupfailure |
I even tried "local" as host name. Solely for "localhost" as host name, hostname gives:
| Code: | hostname --fqdn
hostname |
Neither the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook
nor
gives me a clue what a valid hostname may look like. Any hints?
Last edited by Yminus on Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:17 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Old School
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| Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | # /etc/conf.d/hostname
# Set to the hostname of this machine
HOSTNAME="badboy" |
I hope that helps.
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blu3bird
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| Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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Your /etc/hosts is missing an entry for your hostname 
| /etc/conf.d/hostname wrote: | | HOSTNAME="mycomputer" |
| /etc/hosts wrote: | | 127.0.0.1 mycomputer.mydomain.local mycomputer |
after setting these settings you'll get:
| Code: | $ hostname
mycomputer
$ hostname --fqdn
mycomputer.mydomain.local |
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Yminus
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| Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 11:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks, this solved the problem! |
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bunder
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:38 am Post subject: |
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| blu3bird wrote: | Your /etc/hosts is missing an entry for your hostname
| /etc/hosts wrote: | | 127.0.0.1 mycomputer.mydomain.local mycomputer |
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"localhost localhost.localdomain" should still remain on that line as well...
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