Hi,
I've got a sarge system connected to a DLink D604 router. I'm using
the router's dhcp server to assign IP addresses to the system. The
network configuration is what the debian installer gave me.
Some applications seem to have trouble understanding the network
configuration. For example, sudo says:
jvl@flipper:/etc$ sudo aptitude sudo: unable to lookup flipper via
gethostbyname()
and hostname seems seriously confused:
jvl@flipper:/etc$ hostname flipper jvl@flipper:/etc$ hostname -i
hostname: Unknown host
Also, the router doesn't seem to be able to get the system's name,
though it can the names of my Windows systems.
Poking around, it seems that gethostbyname() looks at the host.conf
and resolv.conf files, but those files seem to expect a fixed ip
address. Also, none of the man pages that I could find (where is
resolv+?) seem to know about /etc/hostname, which I thought was the
way a Linux system named itself.
So, I'm missing something here. Is there a way to tell the resolver
to look /etc/hostname? How does this stuff get tied together?
/icebiker