Re: hostname bogosity

[John Smith <netman1@home.nl>]

Hi Michael,

	check your /etc/hostname which should contain your hostname
only, /etc/hosts which should contain your ip-address and hostname,
/etc/nsswitch.conf which should contain some line like hosts: files dns
and wether the contents of your /etc/resolv.conf is still valid. 

All files should be rw-r--r-- root:root

If all the above works out, check the output of nslookup <your hostname>

Sincerely,

Jan.

On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 19:45, Michael D. Harnois wrote:
> I'm perplexed by a network configuration problem on my system. hostname
> returns the correct name; yet on startup, KDE says "Can't get own host
> name. Your system is severely misconfigured," and my DHCP server doesn't
> recognize the hostname for the system either. Where could the problem
> be?
> 
> --
> Michael D. Harnois
> 
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>               Minneapolis, Minnesota
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