Ive recently setup a slackware linux server for testing some things on, its only on a LAN so I wasnt worrying too much about the hostname so I had set it up as

subdomain.mydomain.co.uk

But I havnt set that up on a DNS server anywhere cos I wasnt worried about it having to actually resolve to the server.

Now I just come to setup MySQL and it says the hostname could not be looked up, does this mean I need to make sure the above domain resolves to the IP address of the Server?

The only problem I have with that is that the server is behind a NAT router so it has a local IP, so unless I expose the server to the internet directly (which I didnt want to do) I cannot get it to resolve.

Anyway round this?

- Carl S

put the ip address and hostname of the server in your /etc/hosts file

Kinda sorted... had to put this in the hosts file

192.168.1.100 subdomain

How come it wasnt working when it just had this in the hosts file??

192.168.1.100 subdomain.mydomain.co.uk

Because the actual hostname is this 'subdomain.mydomain.co.uk' but at the shell prompt I just get root@subdomain

Is this right?

Id have expected it to all follow the full hostname which is setup for the server...

- Carl S

Actually the hostname is what is to the left of the first dot and I would think the other part is a domainname.