Re: hostname in dhcpcd
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 17:22:13 -0400, Andrew Biggadike wrote:
>I am running Woody and kernel 2.4.18 and installed dhcpcd from potato
>(because it was recommended). I am properly pulling an IP from my DHCP
>server, which is nice, but now I cannot use an entry in /etc/hosts to
>map my IP to my hostname (since it's no longer static). When I try to
>ping my hostname it says "unknown host."
>The only reason I need to connect to myself is for webmin (it doesn't
>seem to like 'localhost'), but I would think there is a relatively easy
>way to do this that I am not aware of. Any help is appreciated ..
>
>Thanks, Andrew.
Wouldn't the line;
127.0.0.1 localhost <host name>
work?
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another Evil Empire (tm) began its nefarious rise. -- gt
Coincidence? I think not.
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