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laurentwahl 04-25-2005 03:11 PM
Could not look up internet address for x1-6-00-0d-60-78-25-88
 
hello
I am new with linux and i have red hat 9.
Allways when I log in, I receive this message.
Code:
Could not look up internet address for x1-6-00-0d-60-78-25-88.
This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly.
It may be possible to correct the problem by adding
x1-6-00-0d-60-78-25-88 to the file /etc/hosts.
what can I do?

acid_kewpie 04-25-2005 03:14 PM
i guess that's your hostname, being asigned back to you by your ISP... you can always do exactly what it tells you to do, by ading it to /etc/hosts, adding that to the end of the line already there for localhost

laurentwahl 04-25-2005 04:00 PM
it worked
 
i only replaced localhost with x1-6-00-0d-60-78-25-88 and then it worked.

acid_kewpie 04-25-2005 04:03 PM
hell no, don't REPLACE localhost. add it. you'll break other stuff doing that.

laurentwahl 04-26-2005 10:30 AM
Now I changed the /etc/hosts like this
Quote:
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost x1-6-00-0d-60-78-25-88
is this right
thank you for your help


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