Re: unable to lookup notebook-johannes via gethostbyname()

From: Derrick 'dman' Hudson (dman_at_dman13.dyndns.org)
Date: 09/30/03

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    On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 05:03:03PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
    | Hi everyone.
    | What does this warning message mean:
    |
    | unable to lookup notebook-johannes via gethostbyname()
    |
    | It happens when I use sudo.
    | The background: I have got a static IP from my university, and I have
    | entered it into /etc/network/interfaces. I have also put my hostname
    | (notebook-johannes) in /etc/hostname. What else do I need to do to get
    | rid of this message?

    Name resolution happens via /etc/hosts and/or DNS. So put an entry in
    /etc/hosts (you probably don't have a name server otherwise you would
    just update the zone to include that machine).

    /etc/network/interfaces describes how the physical and logical
    interfaces on the system are set up, but has nothing to do with name
    resolution.

    -D 

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