Unable to resolve host by name

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Tue, 11/25/08, Bob Cortez <rjcortez at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Bob Cortez <rjcortez at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Unable to resolve host by name
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 5:58 PM
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Leonard Chatagnier
> <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net>wrote:
> 
> >
> > --- On Tue, 11/25/08, Bob Cortez
> <rjcortez at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Bob Cortez <rjcortez at gmail.com>
> > > Subject: Unable to resolve host by name
> > > To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for
> general discussions" <
> > ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > > Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 5:19 PM
> > > Connecting two computers on a local network, both
> running
> > > intrepid.  Had
> > > this working in 8.04.
> > >
> > > The server is media contents of /etc/hosts
> includes
> > >
> > > 127.0.0.1  localhost media
> > > 127.0.1.1  media
> > >
> > I think part of your issue is in the above hosts file.
> IINM, media should
> > only be in the 127.0.1.1. I only have localhost in
> 127.0.0.1 and my
> > hostname in 127.0.1.1.  HTH,
> 
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion Leonard, made the change with no
> change in
> results.
> 
As NoOp said, I was wrong.  Maybe because I don't kn ow anything about RDP.-:) Anyway, my /etc/hosts file is as I suggested and works fine and have no problem connecting to computer in my lan.  But NoOp knows way more than I do; so listen to what he says.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net