On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 05:03:03PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
| Hi everyone.
| What does this warning message mean:
|
| unable to lookup notebook-johannes via gethostbyname()
|
| It happens when I use sudo.
| The background: I have got a static IP from my university, and I have
| entered it into /etc/network/interfaces. I have also put my hostname
| (notebook-johannes) in /etc/hostname. What else do I need to do to get
| rid of this message?
Name resolution happens via /etc/hosts and/or DNS. So put an entry in
/etc/hosts (you probably don't have a name server otherwise you would
just update the zone to include that machine).
/etc/network/interfaces describes how the physical and logical
interfaces on the system are set up, but has nothing to do with name
resolution.
-D
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