i am setting up a thin client k12linux and it was successfull,along with squid proxy here is the error coming out other pc's does not boot on the network

2009/12/01 15:42:32| WARNING: failed to resolve 172.31.100.254 to a fully qualified hostname
2009/12/01 15:42:32| WARNING: gethostbyname failed for kernel
FATAL: Could not determine fully qualified hostname. Please set 'visible_hostname'

Squid Cache (Version 3.0.STABLE20): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.006 seconds = 0.005 user + 0.001 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 0

so hoe is it?thank you

Hi,

I guess your are not accessing a name server, so you have to use:
using your server's FQDN

Regards