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:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc$ sudo aptitude sudo: unable to lookup flipper via gethostbyname()
and hostname seems seriously confused:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc$ hostname flipper [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/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
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