On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 07:10:48PM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 13:43:44 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > > > Maybe something is misconfigured on my box, but I get > > > > [01:41 PM]wwong ~ $ hostname -i > > 127.0.0.1 > > > > which is probably not very helpful =p > > > > (of course, this is on a static IP on a LAN, so it might be slightly > > different from what the OP's situation. I am just posting to prove a > > point) > > I also have a static IP on a LAN. What do you have in /etc/hosts > and /etc/conf.d/hostname? >
Ah! that would explain it. So hostname -i does a name lookup? In /etc/hosts I define all references to the local machine to 127.0.0.1 In hindsight, this behaviour does make sense. W -- Tubby or not tubby, fat is the question! Sortir en Pantoufles: up 22:35 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
