On Wednesday 12 June 2002 11:13 pm, David Talkington wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Gordon Messmer wrote: > >own hostname. If you're using DHCP and it's assigning you a hostname, > >you might see a performance improvement if you set a hostname in the > >network-config tool and add a line in /etc/hosts for that name as well. > > > >The /etc/hosts file on the machine I'm on now looks like: > ># Do not remove the following line, or various programs > ># that require network functionality will fail. > >127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > >127.0.0.1 herald.dragondsawn.net herald > > Why would you do that if your address is dynamic? It's guaranteed to > break things when your IP address changes.
Hello all, Well I fixed my printing problem, but there are a few things I would like to add. My ADSL does use dynamic IP, but my provider has never supplied me with a hostname. I don't know if it's because they don't provide one or I have never set up DHCP correctly. I beleive it is the former. Also, my printing problem was fixed, what I did was a fresh install and I set up eth0 and supplied a primary and secondary DNS and supplied my hostname "Buddy". This allowed printing to work just fine. What I don't like about this situation is, why printing barfs if it's not set up this perticular way, after all, I specifically set it up as a "local printer" so it shouldn't need any network peripherals or anything for that matter. here is what my /etc/hosts looks like now compared to what it looked like when printing was barfing: This works: # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 Buddy localhost.localdomain localhost This don't work: # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost Secondly, RedHat's xDSL client in the control panel *IS* broken. So far here is what I learned about this situation: after re-installed, I used RH's xDSL client to establish a connection. Then by using the icon in the network device control It would connect and disconnect just fine, but as usual, it would keep dropping the connection. So since the network device used the rp-pppoe package, I decided to upgrade rp-pppoe and try and establish a connection through the network device control again. This didn't seem to work, the icon never made a connection, but at the same time, I could browse the internet, get mail etc.... So it seemed aparent that the icon was not connecting, but it was actually connecting behind the scenes. So I thought, Ok this is fine, but I need to see if it still drops the connection every 2 minutes. Yup it did. I finally deleted the xDSL connection in the network device control and resorted to a shell and set up rp-pppoe from a shell. I have not had any disconnections since then, and printing works as long as I keep my primary and secondary nameservers running with eth0. I have to say, this is very messy work by RH : - / -- David M. Edification Web Solutions http://www.edificationweb.com _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
