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From: Manas Bhatt <bhatt_manas@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: hostname on /etc/hosts file
To: Radhika Sambamurti <radhika_narendran@yahoo.com>,
	Gene Harris <geneh51@swbell.net>
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thoug i am expert on this but as far as i know, while
trying to resolve your hostname, it looks into the
/etc/hosts file and find the corresponding entry
missing and the hence host not found error.
if you can add your hostname as well as the
corresponding ip in the /etc/hosts file, the error
should go away.
--manas
--- Radhika Sambamurti <radhika_narendran@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Of course I entered my specific "hostname" in the
> file.
> My question is why does it not understand that my
> hostname
> is also the localhost?
> 
> --- Gene Harris <geneh51@swbell.net> wrote:
> > Have you entered your machine's name using
> hostname?  It
> > needs to know who
> > it is.
> > 
> > Gene
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Radhika Sambamurti"
> <radhika_narendran@yahoo.com>
> > To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 7:41 PM
> > Subject: hostname on /etc/hosts file
> > 
> > 
> > > My etc/host file has only the first line as
> "localhost"
> > > without my hostname on the line. Every time I
> startx,
> > Gnome
> > > tells me that my hostname could not be found and
> that I
> > > should put it in etc/hosts file.
> > >
> > > When I put it in the file, I kept getting
> mail...saying
> > > "hostname" not found .
> > >
> > > Any idea of what I might try here or what is
> going on.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Radhika
> > >
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