hostname

[john]

yep. got that, in the meantime I tried simply small, but i got the same 
problem.
eg.
|user at mymachine: sudo -i
|sudo: unable to lookup small via gethostbyname()
I don't get it. it worked fine even with the dot for 3-4 months, and now i get 
this warning, which by the way now gives me trouble, for example amule 
displays a warning, but starts in the background if i start it from a kde 
icon, if i start it from command line it does start, displays a warning, but 
can be seen.
thanks for the quick reply


>On Tuesday 22 November 2005 12:41, Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 12:32 +0100, john wrote:
> > I am using dapper drake, and get this irritating warning about my
> > hostname being invalid. I tried small.kubuntu, small.kubuntu.com,
> > small_kubuntu, but hostnam just doesn't like it. I'd like to ask what are
> > valid hostnames? eg.
> >
> > |root at mymachine:hostname small_kubuntu
> > |root at mymachine:hostname: the specified hostname is invalid
>
> IIRC, valid hostnames will contain no dots, and will have no underscores
> in them.
>
> small-kubuntu should work
>
> D.
>
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