I have always gotten this message when I tried Red Hat, but now I'm getting it in Mandrake as well.

"Could not look up internet address for x1-6-00-04-5a-61-80-59. This will prevent Gnome from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct this problem by adding x1-6-00-04-5a-61-80-59 to the file /etc/hosts"

I opened up that file, but I really didn't know what to add, so I was hoping someone here could help me out. Right now it just has a comment, saying do not edit this file, but there's nothing else there...



Thanks in advance!

edit /etc/hosts, and add the following line:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain local host x1-6-00-04-5a-61-80-59

Worked like a charm! Thanks!

glad i could help :)