Unable to ping hostname?

From: Robert Mark Bram (relaxedrob_at_remove.this.optusnet.com.au)
Date: 11/28/03 

Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 13:28:33 +1100

Hi All!

I have used hostname to give my computer a name, yet I am unable to ping
it:

$ cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

~
$ hostname
dijong

~
$ ping dijong
ping: unknown host dijong

~
$

Should the hostname appear in the hosts file? I am using DHCP to obtain an
IP address..

Thanks for any advice! 

-- 
Rob
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