Jens B. Jorgensen writes: > >Brian K Servis wrote: >> >> Help! >> >> Ever since I upgrade to frozen(May 25) I am having all kinds of problems >> with name resolution. Lpr is one of them, when lpd starts I get the >> following repeated 5 times in messages: >> >> Jun 3 13:35:39 widget-servis lpd[374]: unable to get official name for >> local machine widget-servis >> >> I connect to my isp via dialup and us slirp to emulate ppp so I gave my >> machine a bogus name of widget-servis. >> >> I didn't have any problems before with 1.2. Other problems include ppp, ping, >> emacs, etc. Basically anything that trys to do a name resolve when starting >> or uses a name resolve. I didn't change any of my hostname, resolve.conf, >> hosts.* files during the upgrade. > >This may be true. However, perhaps one of these got changed anyway. >Why don't you include them in your post. This would be very helpful. > >-- >Jens B. Jorgensen >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Ok here goes:
/etc/resolve.conf: domain ecn.purdue.edu search ecn.purdue.edu nameserver 128.46.131.20 nameserver 128.46.131.20 nameserver 128.46.131.20 /etc/host.conf: order hosts,bind multi on /etc/hostname: widget-servis /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback widget-servis.ecn.purdue.edu widget-servis #(plus a bunch of other frequenctly used hosts at ecn.purdue.edu) /etc/hosts.allow ALL: LOCAL /etc/hosts.deny ALL: PARANOID /etc/hosts.equiv #(empty) /etc/hosts.lpd #(empty) /etc/init.d/network: ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 dev lo Newly discovered info: I can ping 127.0.0.1 and it works if I ping widget-servis it gives a host unknown error, this used to work in before. Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://widget.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
