networking & /etc/host

[Alexandre]

Em Qui, 2004-02-19 às 04:09, Philip escreveu:
> If I'm not mistaken, when logging into my desktop I should be logged in
> to the "local host", at least that's what it used to do. I'm set up on a

No. It logs on machine's name. 

> LAN (simple NetGear router on top of broad band) and when I log in to my
> desktop I'm actually logged in to what fedora calls "dhcppc4". As the
> login proceeds I get an error:
> "Could not look up Internet address for dhcppc4. This will prevent GNOME
> from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct the problem by
> adding dhcppc4 to the file /etc/hosts"

So, add it :-)

/etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
127.0.0.1 	dhcppc4