F8 t3 DNS setup problem

[Keith Roberts]

I have just done a completely fresh network installation of 
F8t3 to my laptop. I did not enable NetworkManager at 
boot time for this install.

I have checked/etc/sysconfig/network and the 
network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

Everything seems to be working correctly now. So I guess it 
was me goofing up the installation. I can ping from the 
command-line to a known host using DNS.

yum works as well.

When I run X & KDE the NetworkManager icon has a red cross 
on it - but I use static IP, and eth0 is still up and 
running. This is what made me think I needed to enable 
NetworkManager. So I just closed NetworkManager and told it 
not to start again.

The only thing that looks odd is the contents of my 
/etc/hosts file, which is:

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.

127.0.0.1    fedora-laptoplocalhost.localdomain localhost
::1          localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6

should that first line not be

127.0.0.1    fedora-laptop  localhost.localdomain  localhost

my hostname is fedora-laptop

Kind Regards

Keith Roberts

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