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when i log into Red Hat it gives me this error after ptting ni name and pass
Could not look up internet address for x1-6-00-40-ca-b5-35-db.
This will prevent GNOME from ...
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- 02-22-2003 #1Just Joined!
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Logon RedHat 8
when i log into Red Hat it gives me this error after ptting ni name and pass
Could not look up internet address for x1-6-00-40-ca-b5-35-db.
This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly.
It may be possible to correct the problem by adding
x1-6-00-40-ca-b5-35-db to the file /etc/hosts
It gives me choices
Try Again or Log In Anyways
What does this mean and what should i do about it
- 02-22-2003 #2Linux Guru
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Try (as root) to open the file /etc/sysconfig/network, and change the HOSTNAME entry (which I'm guessing is set to localhost or localhost.localdomain right now) to something. It can be basically anything (as long as it's alphanumeric; a-z, 1-9, no spaces), eg. linuxbox. Then reboot your computer and see if it's still happening. (Yes, of course it's possible to do without rebooting, but I just don't describe that way now)
- 02-22-2003 #3Linux Enthusiast
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this is because you are telling your computer that the DHCP server (your cable internet provider) is the one that provides you with your hostname. Somewhere in /etc/sysconfig there is an option for turning this off. I had to read through the scripts myself to find it. I know you have to put something in ifcfg.eth0 to tell it to disregard the DHCP hostname. This is done with the -H flag to dhcpcd I think, so if you `grep -- -H ifup` it might show you some more info.
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- 02-22-2003 #4Linux Guru
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When I checked ifup, it turned out that it replaces the current hostname with the one that came from the ISP if the pre-set one was "localhost" or "localhost.localdomain". I'm not really sure what happens if it's something less standard, but I'd guess that it doesn't interfere then.
- 02-22-2003 #5Linux Enthusiast
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dolda: on 7.3 there was an actual value you could set to get it to pass the -H parameter to dhcpcd. I forget what it was though.
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- 02-22-2003 #6Linux Guru
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Yeah, I remember that. We had a posting about this before, didn't we? However, RedHat 8 uses dhclient by default, and I don't really know much about it. I almost immediately replaced it with pump, since my DDNS didn't like dhclient.
- 02-23-2003 #7Linux Newbie
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i had that error when i first installed linux and it just went on its own
- 02-24-2003 #8Linux Enthusiast
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nothing in linux just "goes on it's own". You probably downloaded a RedHat patch for it.
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