I have just set up my work desktop as dual-boot Windows 2000 Redhat 8.0 and am experiencing a strange problem. Having a quick look around here I see no info about this...
When starting up in windows the machine is called DEV9 and registers on the network and receives an ip address of xxx.xxx.xxx.102 from the DHCP server and registers in the WINS listings with no problem.
The Linux setup is set up as LX9 as the hostname (Set under the DNS panel of redhat-config-network) and also gets its DNS information from the DHCP server. It receives an ip address and routing info OK (so can get onto the Internet and network) but gives an error :
"could not look up internet address for LX9..."
The LX9 name does not appear to register. /etc/hosts contains only:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
but ifconfig lists eth0 and lo... from another machine I can ping by ip address, but not by hostname...
any solutions?
Cheers
Dan