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Author:  k7faq [ Sat Jul 09, 2011 10:49 pm ]
Post subject:  hostname issue

Someone offer some insight as how to resolve this?

Code:
/bin/hostname --fqdn


results in

Code:
hostname: Name or service not known


this is noticed in just deploying an Ubuntu 10.04 new Server config

Code:
root@fms:~# hostname
fms.csr-az.com


Thanks
Steven[/code]

Author:  Zr40 [ Sat Jul 09, 2011 11:23 pm ]
Post subject: 

Did you add the IP and FQDN to /etc/hosts?

Author:  k7faq [ Sun Jul 10, 2011 1:25 am ]
Post subject: 

Yes, thank you. Following is the contents of the /etc/hosts.
I found performing the exact same set of actions on a Debian 6 everything works just fine. I am not sure what the issue is but seems to be specific to the Ubuntu 10.04 config here

# cat /etc/hosts
96.126.120.146 fms.csr-az.com
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

Author:  obs [ Sun Jul 10, 2011 6:36 am ]
Post subject: 

/etc/hosts should have
Code:
yourip yourfqdn yourhostname

/etc/hostname should have
Code:
yourhostname

Once done you can either reboot or run
Code:
start hostname

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