[NBLUG/talk] Setting up RH 9

[Todd Cary]

Ron -

By qualifying the file name in /etc/hosts, the problem was solved!  Many 
thanks for the guidance....

192.168.0.12   tlix.localdomain   tlix

Todd

Ron Wickersham wrote:

>hi Todd,
>
>it seems that Red-Hat gets told how to look up numeric addresses in two
>files, /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/host.conf.
>
>check /etc/nsswitch.conf and it should say
>files dns
>
>and /etc/host.conf should say
>hosts, bind
>
>it wouldn't matter if it has other services mentioned so long as files and
>hosts are first and dns and bind are after that.  note there is no comma
>in nsswitch.conf, but a comma is required in host.conf.
>
>a Red-Hat person should really be helping you at this stage, but the
>documentation i have for Red-Hat is that the hostname is set in the
>file /etc/sysconfig/network.   the HOSTNAME= should be the fully-qualified
>hostname and optionally have DOMAINNAME= set to the domain portion only.
>you can also set the default gateway there.
>
>static routes can be set in /etc/sysconfig/static-routes but you probably
>only need the default route.
>
>-ron
>
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