Someone offer some insight as how to resolve this?

/bin/hostname --fqdn

results in

hostname: Name or service not known

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

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

Thanks
Steven[/code]

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

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

/etc/hosts should have

yourip yourfqdn yourhostname

/etc/hostname should have

yourhostname

Once done you can either reboot or run

start hostname

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