very basic about initial install

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 13:21 -0500, reader at newsguy.com wrote:
> The error message said something to the effect that my machine name
> could not be resolved

I said in the other reply that there is another similar thread. I just
checked, its subject is, "What's the cause / reason of: "unable to
resolve host WS24 !?"

If yours is the same issue, this might help:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-112939.html

There is also a bug report about this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/+bug/32906