> 127.0.0.1 localhost pingo > 10.10.0.17 pingo.miss-knife.net pingo
On rereading the original message I realize that I overlooked the most important fact. The hostname, 'pingo', appears on two lines in the /etc/hosts file. The presence of 'pingo' on the 127.0.0.1 line causes 'localhost' to be pingo's canonical hostname whereas (I take it) the user wants 'pingo.miss-knife.net' to be pingo's canonical hostname. Pierre Machard: Have I got that right? I can think of a couple of different ways of solving this problem. The first is to eliminate 'pingo' from the 127.0.0.1 line if and only if 'pingo' appears on some other line. A second approach to solving the problem is to have two separate 127.0.0.1 lines, one of them at the very end. It acts as a default canonical hostname specifier for the machine. Experiment shows that this gives the Right behavior; however I am not sure that it is legal for one IP address to appear on more than one line in /etc/hosts. # /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart # cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 10.10.0.17 pingo.miss-knife.net pingo 127.0.0.1 pingo # hostname pingo # hostname --fqdn pingo.miss-knife.net # # Note that dnsmasq (which looks in /etc/hosts) is running # host pingo pingo has address 127.0.0.1 pingo has address 10.10.0.17 # host 127.0.0.1 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer localhost. 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer pingo. # vi /etc/hosts # /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart # cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 pingo # hostname --fqdn pingo # host pingo pingo has address 127.0.0.1 # host 127.0.0.1 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer localhost. 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer pingo. -- Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
