host.conf problem

[Rick Stevens]

Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 06:24:55PM -0500, Fred Grant wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 18:18, Bob McClure Jr wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 06:06:20PM -0500, Fred Grant wrote:
>>>
>>>>On log-in, I periodically and sporadically get a message that the system
>>>>can't determine the host for Internet use.  When I check the host.conf
>>>>folder it is missing the "localhost.localdomain" info.
>>>
>>>That does not compute.  /etc/host.conf (a file, not a folder) normally
>>>contains
>>>
>>>  order hosts,bind
>>>
>>>and that's all.  Perhaps you're thinking of /etc/hosts, which should
>>>have something like (mine as an example):
>>>
>>>127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
>>>192.168.2.2     bobcat.bobcatos.com     bobcat
>>>
>>>
>>>>I can fix it by (as root) copying hosts.bak to this folder but it is
>>>>kind of a pain.
>>>>
>>>>Any ideas as to why this periodically drops out?  I'm using FC2.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>
>>You are right Bob, it's /etc/hosts that loses the localhost.localdomain
>>info.  I wonder if I could incorporate  copying of this info into the
>>daily cron job?  Seems funny that the info periodically gets lost.
> 
> 
> No, that's a band-aid.  Something else is wrong that needs to be fixed.
> 
> Look in /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts and see what
> it looks like.  It it's improper, fix it and see if the problem
> doesn't go away.
> 
> No, I don't know how that gets into the game.  Rick probably does.

Er, it could be the DHCP client requesting it from the DHCP server and
gronking it.  I'd have to look.
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