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From: "Brett L. Hawn" <blh@nol.net>
To: dale <khail@lovett-2030.lovett.rice.edu>
cc: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: sysinstall 
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On Tue, 7 May 1996, dale wrote:

> >My first guess is that you have your hostname/domainname set incorrectly or
> >not set at all.
> >
> >Brett
> 
> i *think* they are set correctly, here is a layout of my /etc/hosts
> 
> 127.0.0.1		localhost.lovett.rice.edu localhost
> 128.42.161.30		lovett-2030.lovett.rice.edu lovett-2030
> 
> am i looking in the wrong place?
> 

ermm. what I meant (should have been more clear) is that they're not being
set by the system correctly. /etc/hosts is a file checked by the system for
'aliases' (ie. telnet lovett-2030 instead of telnet
lovett-2030.lovett.rice.edu) rather than where the system gets its actual
name from. You should be looking in /etc/sysconfig

Brett