Re: cannot ping my own machine

["schmity" <schmity@nctv.com>]

Here is the info.  Looks like the machine is named Sandstorm instead of
Linuxbox.  Sandstorm is what I had intended the workgroup name to be
for my network.  Can I change this so that the computername is
Linuxbox?

Linuxbox:/home/brent# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost       Sandstorm

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
Linuxbox:/home/brent# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:40:33:A0:7B:90
          inet addr:192.168.8.19  Bcast:192.168.8.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:236 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:173 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:1 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:29232 (28.5 KiB)  TX bytes:17760 (17.3 KiB)
          Interrupt:16 Base address:0xe800

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:84 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:84 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:5748 (5.6 KiB)  TX bytes:5748 (5.6 KiB)

Linuxbox:/home/brent# ping Sandstorm
PING localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
time=0.041 ms
64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64
time=0.034 ms

--- localhost.localdomain ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.034/0.037/0.041/0.007 ms
Linuxbox:/home/brent#