Could not look up internet address for x1-6-00-0d-60-78-25-88

laurentwahl · 04-25-2005, 03:11 PM

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

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