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Re: hostname bogosity



On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 03:10, John Smith wrote:

> 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>

All that is fine. Can't use nslookup because these are not public
names/addresses. 
--
Michael D. Harnois

3L, UST School of Law
              Minneapolis, Minnesota
We have just enough religion to make
us hate, but not enough to make us
love one another. -- Jonathan Swift



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