[Gllug] hostname not found

[Ian]

i have had this a couple of times, once it was due to my lo interface
dissapering after going from potato to woody in debian, the other time
was my /etc/hostname file had got corrupted,

On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 20:16, Harry Jackson wrote:
> More fun
> 
> Apache Squid and I suspect several other utilities have stopped working
> becasue they are unable to get the hostname of my debian box. My
> /etc/resolv.conf has the entries of my external DNS and the only thing
> that I can think is that I have got problems with my local DNS. Am I on
> the right track. 
> 
> I have been using the following for months with no problems. 
> 
> /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 192.168.0.4 jenny
> 
> 
> dnsdomainname returns
> dnsdomainname: Unknown Host
> 
> How does the box get the domain of the box without going out to the
> nameservers.
> 
> Harry
> 
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