[SOLVED] hostname confusion

wufo · 09-10-2013, 11:00 AM

I am confused over how linux stored and uses its hostname. I run the command
~ $ hostname
misty

But, when I use cups on a remote system to access a printer, it fails with
a can't establish connection with loki.dogpound.net. At one tine the system might have been named loki, but was changed.

Why does cups still report loki as the hostname instead of misty to the remote system?

tj

YellowApple · 09-10-2013, 11:12 AM

What's the content of /etc/hosts?

wufo · 09-10-2013, 11:17 AM

Discovered the problem in the server's /etc/hosts and discovered your suggestion to look there when I came back to post the problem solved. Still, thanks for the reply.

tj

YellowApple · 09-10-2013, 12:27 PM

No problem, and good to see you got it figured out. I had just stumbled through some issues with Apache and an OpenVZ-ified Slackware server's /etc/hosts, which is why it came to mind (damn OpenVZ-based VPS providers...).