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From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Wed, 20 Sep 1995 21:46:49 -0500 (EST), John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> said:

> Make sure the full name(s) of your host are defined in /etc/hosts.

More significantly, make sure the hostname defined in /etc/sysconfig
is the fully-qualified domain name of the machine.

-GAWollman

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