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Originally posted by opjose Yes, if your interface is not configured this is correct.
The lack of a network interface causes only the loopback (127.0.0.1) to be required so that X can function.
The problem is that it seems that once your interface is configured it still keeps getting changed back.
If you have properly configured the interface and named your machine properly this should not happen.
Per somebody's advice on Freenode (IRC) I tried a knoppix install. It worked fine. Since I'm trying to expand my horizon's I isntalled Fedora Core 2, and its working fine. In Mandrake ans FC2 Theonly name I gave it was the network name. Thats what confuses me. I do have it named properly.
Thanks for the help, I appreciate it.
The hostname is what appears before the network name.
e.g.
myhost.mydomain.com
Each interface (usually) has a unique FQDN associated with it.
Linux also supports zeroconf naming, wherein your router recognizes the "name" presented by the machine from the zeroconf field, so that it can assign the machine an IP.
Usually the presented FQDN entered in zeroconf gets your router to spit out an IP and configuration information to your machine.
X windows utilizes the FQDN of the machine, which can vary from the FQDN of the interface, when authorizing the X display client.
So if the Xwindows installer can't determine the machinename, it resorts to using the localhost entry AFAIK.
Originally posted by opjose The "network name" is a domain name.
The hostname is what appears before the network name.
e.g.
myhost.mydomain.com
Each interface (usually) has a unique FQDN associated with it.
Linux also supports zeroconf naming, wherein your router recognizes the "name" presented by the machine from the zeroconf field, so that it can assign the machine an IP.
Usually the presented FQDN entered in zeroconf gets your router to spit out an IP and configuration information to your machine.
X windows utilizes the FQDN of the machine, which can vary from the FQDN of the interface, when authorizing the X display client.
So if the Xwindows installer can't determine the machinename, it resorts to using the localhost entry AFAIK.
Ah ha. So, what should I call it? Anything I want?
I'm missing the machine.domain.com name, right?
Ok. I've reinstalled Mandrake after a brief stint with FC2.
During the install I gave the PC the network name of Prometheus and drake.localhost.localdomain.com
Where am I not naming it properly? As soon as I cat resolv.conf...
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