Thanks, whats RFC-1518?
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>From: "Anthony E. Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: changing hostname?
>Date: Tue, Jan 25, 2000, 11:56 am
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>At 10:29 2000-01-25 +0000, Neil Hollow wrote:
>>I've changed my hostname by the hostname command, but on going into X I get
>>an error saying that this has not been added to my etc/hosts file.  My
>>question is do I just add the name or do I need a IP number as well, if I
>>do,  do I use any old number or how do I determine what it it is?  Sorry
>>this seems an idiotic question but I cannot find the answer on on web pages,
>>man pages or in my linux books. Ta. NH
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>Add both the name and IP address to /etc/hosts. There are several groups of
>IP addresses reserved for use by private networks (not directly
>connected/visible to the Internet). The most popular for home/SOHO use is
>192.168.0.1-192.168.255.255. These networks are described in RFC-1518(?).
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> Tony
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