On 01-Oct-2003/04:41 -0500, TBrowder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Anthony E. Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> That way, when gdm tries to make a network connection to realhostname, it
>> will resolve to 127.0.0.1 instead of querying the DNS.
>
>Can this situation happen even without any interface using DHCP? As far as I
>know, it isn't being used.

If the box has a static IP address, it should be specified in /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1   localhost.localdomain   localhost
192.168.1.2 realhostname.realdomain realhostname


>But at least one of the problem hosts had a
>remote X session going when the network was terminated.  Might there be some
>kind of secret lock or socket connection still being held?

I don't know how that could cause a problem. The lockfile should be
deleted when gdm starts.

Tony
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