host.conf problem

[Fred Grant]

On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 20:23, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 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.

> Is that something the ISP does?