icebiker wrote:
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
What is in /etc/hostname ? Usually setting this will help out a lot of services if they are confused about the name. E.G. I had to set mine to www.ellisbros.com to keep apache2 happy (not generating warnings in the log) about the name of the machine, even though I had previously had elllisbros.com in my /etc/hostname. I vaguely remember that a long time ago another service wanted to see a correct name in /etc/hostname (something that jives with DNS records) before it would start. Exim perhaps? I have no experience with aptitude.
-Rob
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