First off I'd just like to say that I know nothing about Linux...

Everytime I load up Red Hat 9 and prior to GNOME loading up but in a graphical environment, I get a message that reads:

"Could not look up internet address for DHCPPC2. This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct the problem by adding DHCPPC2 to the file /etc/hosts"

My Internet works perfectly fine through DHCP, and thus far I haven't found any problems with GNOME.

However, I'm just wondering how to fix this and get a better understanding of what's actually going on there.

I'm under the impression that I've assigned the name "DHCPP2" as my computer's name.

Any suggestions or thoughts?

what dhcp server are you connecting to? sounds like you machine thinks its name is DHCPPC2. I agree with the solution of editing /etc/hosts to add DHCPPC2 as an alias to localhost. Just add the word DHCPPC2 to the end of the line in /etc/hosts that has localhost in it...

I actually have a Netgear RT314 router, which apparently has an integrated 'virtual' DHCP server.

I haven't made any modifications to the /etc/host file because I don't know how...

What has happened now is that for some reason it's now saying that it can't find an internet address for DHCPPC1.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Open a terminal.
change to root by witing: su

type emacs /etc/sysconfig/network

there add the line:
HOSTNAME="mycomputer"

Then you need to redo your hosts file.

What's happening is that the error message is coming up and everynow and then, the message is changing from error loading DHCPPC1 to DHCPPC2.

Would is be safe to add both:

HOSTNAME="DHCPPC1"
HOSTNAME="DHCPPC2"

to that file?

When you say that I'll have to redo my hosts file, I'm not running a Linux server - but rather a Netgear RT314 router that acts as a DHCP server.

Thanks for the reply.