cannot resolve hostname
Hello
In what seems to be a string of related issues having to do with
networking, I now find that not only has my IP address been changed from
192.168.1.40 to 192.168.1.64 but also that my machine's name (valhalla)
cannot be resolved.
This is the output of ifconfig:
$ sudo ifconfig
sudo: unable to resolve host valhalla
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:47:05:a3:07
inet addr:192.168.1.64 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::290:47ff:fe05:a307/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:47117 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:46335 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:38194090 (36.4 MiB) TX bytes:6237238 (5.9 MiB)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0xec00
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:7309 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7309 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2964856 (2.8 MiB) TX bytes:2964856 (2.8 MiB)
Any help would be appreciated in sorting this out, specifically:
(1) How do I fix my IP address so that it remains as I originally
configured it (i.e. 192.168.1.40) which will make it easier and more
predictable for the print client to find the server machine?
(2) How do I do so in such a way that I can access the Net once I reboot
- which I was unable to do and hence - on good advice - changed the
/etc/network/interfaces so that the stanza changed from iface eth0 inet
*static* to *dhcp* . This was the only thing that enabled this machine
to access the Net after a reboot and I am loathe to change this back to
something that didn't work.
(3) Helping me to understand how/ why all of these changes have taken
place? What happened? I had a perfectly running system - everything
worked, and then yesterday I rebooted and I find this dog's breakfast of
an arrangement.
Thanks in anticipation, list.
AG
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