>>>>> "JA" == Jay Austad <Austad> writes:
JA> You need to add this line to /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost
Actually, if you look at Marc's earlier message, you will see that he
claims to have set the DOMAIN name to localhost, which could easily be
goofing things up!
R
>> -----Original Message----- From: John J. Trammell
>> [mailto:trammell at trammell.dyndns.org] Sent: Tuesday, November
>> 06, 2001 7:44 AM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re:
>> [TCLUG] problem
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 12:12:15AM -0600, Marc Olivier wrote: >
>> ok, here is the situation with my request. I am going to pester
>> Suse > Linux, since it is there product, adn they should
>> support it.
>>
>> Erm, you're likely to get better support here on TCLUG.
>>
>> > Thanks to those who responded for the offers of help, I
>> appreciate it.
>>
>> So why didn't you respond to any of our posts? :-)
>>
>> > My main thing right now is, when I go into konsole, and I
>> type lp, I > get the following "Get_local_host: 'localhost' IP
>> address not > available!"
>>
>> That sUx0rs. <stab type="wild">What does your /etc/hosts file
>> look like?</stab>
>>
>> > Now, I get this after setting host name as "linux" and domain
>> name as > "localhost", and I have the network address as
>> follows: Network device > =eth0 Setup method; Static address
>> setup (because DHCP won't take at > all without an external
>> server address for some reason)
>>
>> Prolly because DHCP means that you have to talk to a server to
>> get your host config info. Again I ask: is your ISP set up to
>> give you a dynamic address? Do you have a dialup, DSL, cable,
>> ISDN, what?
>>
>> > IP address=192.168.0.1 Subnet mask=255.255.255.0 > Earlier, I
>> had entered several addresses in the name server list, and >
>> now, I can't get them out. What is happening?
>>
>> Very likely your name server addresses got put into
>> /etc/resolv.conf. One of your other posts mentions that you
>> have a dialup connection. If you're not connected to your ISP,
>> you're not going to be able to do much with that.
>>
>> I'm puzzled as to what you are trying to do. It sounds like
>> you're working on printing, some sort of ethernet setup (eth0),
>> some sort of dialup setup (modem mentioned elsewhere), and some
>> sort of name service stuff. I would suggest the following
>> to-do list, done in the following order:
>>
>> 1. Get your host configured correctly; IP address, et cetera.
>> 2. Get dialup networking going. That way you can use the host
>> on the net to read mail and update packages. 3. Get printing
>> going.
>>
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