what to do after an IP change
William Hooper
whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Wed Aug 4 12:26:32 UTC 2004
Lars E. Pettersson said:
> On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 08:03, Roger Grosswiler wrote:
>
>> so, strangerwise, i choosed my hosts-file and changed the
>> 127.0.0.1-entry. to the following
>>
>>
>> 127.0.0.1 my_hostname my_hostname.my_domain.tld localhost
>>
>
> No, do not do that, that is not correct. It may work, but it is not the
> correct way to do it.
This is what Anaconda does if you put in a host name during the install. It is also perfectly valid if your machine is something like a laptop using DHCP, which may or may not be connected to a network.
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William Hooper
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