Re: How do I stop Gnome looking for IP address on boot-up?

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Phillip Deackes wrote:

> > Put an entry in /etc/hosts for your hostname (like you should have ;-)
> 
> That was one of the first things I ever did when I installed Linux!!!!!!
> 
> My system knows my hostname. Nothing else, apart from Gnome has a
> problem with it. I am convinced it is a 'Gnome Thing'. Gnome appears
> to be rying to resolve an IP address for my hostname. I do log on to
> an IP with dynamic addresssing, so my host is configured as 0.0.0.0.
> Maybe this is the problem?

If you are saying that your hostname is listed with IP 0.0.0.0 in
/etc/hosts, why aren't you using 127.0.0.1?

-- Elliot
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