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

[Norman Stevens <norman arcady u-net com>]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Elliot Lee wrote:

> 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?

Because the ISP hookup howto tells you to do this.

Norman