Bug#573375: [Hostname-devel] Bug#573375: calling 'hostname' fails

2010-03-21 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Mar 20, 2010, at 18:55, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 04:54:50PM +0100, Jeremiah Foster wrote: >> By resolvable, do you mean via tools that resolve names to numbers? i.e. DNS? >> Because the answer is yes, dig resolves the host name correctly when I give >> it the hostname, i

Bug#573375: [Hostname-devel] Bug#573375: calling 'hostname' fails

2010-03-20 Thread Michael Meskes
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 04:54:50PM +0100, Jeremiah Foster wrote: > By resolvable, do you mean via tools that resolve names to numbers? i.e. DNS? > Because the answer is yes, dig resolves the host name correctly when I give > it the hostname, it gives me the IP it resolves to. Yes, that's what I me

Bug#573375: [Hostname-devel] Bug#573375: calling 'hostname' fails

2010-03-20 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Mar 19, 2010, at 12:41, Michael Meskes wrote: >> Calling hostname alone works, it produces the host's name. However any other >> call >> to host name produces this error message: hostname: Name or service not known >> >> i.e. hostname -i > > Is your hostname resolvable, e.g. by other tools

Bug#573375: [Hostname-devel] Bug#573375: calling 'hostname' fails

2010-03-19 Thread Michael Meskes
> Calling hostname alone works, it produces the host's name. However any other > call > to host name produces this error message: hostname: Name or service not known > > i.e. hostname -i Is your hostname resolvable, e.g. by other tools? The error message sounds like a system that is not able to