problems switching from DSL to Cable internet with Red Hat 9

wdeleersnyder_at_cogeco.ca
Date: 02/04/04 

Date: 3 Feb 2004 20:12:07 -0800

Hi,

I just switched from DSL (Bell Sympatico) to Cable internet (Cogeco)
because Cogeco had a 5 month special and they up'd their speeds to 5
Mbps... They configured my computer to work under WinXP, but I have a
dual boot system running Red Hat 9.

I didn't have too many problems getting cable internet to work with
Red Hat 9, but now I seem to be running into other problems that I
don't like. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.

First, instead of booting up to the welcome screen saying
"localhost.localdomain" it displays the MAC address for my network
card.

Second, in the shell it displays the MAC address instead of
"localhost". (eg. root@x1-6-00-50-ba-a4-52-41 instead of
root@localhost).

Third, when I try to start up Apache for some personal website
development I get an error. It doesn't seem to read the hosts file
properly. I get the error

httpd: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name,
using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName

However, my /etc/hosts file says:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.0.2 digitalmeister testsite

I'm now unable to access 127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.2 or any of the alias's.

Everything was fine using a DSL connection.

Any help is appreciated. Perhaps someone could point me a good How-To
document or an article on the internet. I've been searching and
reading, but perhaps I'm searching in the wrong direction, or just
misinterpreting my problem, so I'm unable to find a solution.

Thanks,
Wayne D.

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