<div>small.kubuntu in /etc/hosts would itself be valid if your dnsdomainname is kubuntu. e.g. mine is</div>
<div><a href="http://127.0.0.1">127.0.0.1</a> localhost prism prism.shadownet</div>
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<div>Have you recently done an upgrade of anything thru [sk]ynaptic that might affect your networking?<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/22/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">john</b> <<a href="mailto:sorosj@gmail.com">sorosj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">yep. got that, in the meantime I tried simply small, but i got the same<br>problem.<br>eg.<br>|user@mymachine: sudo -i
<br>|sudo: unable to lookup small via gethostbyname()<br>I don't get it. it worked fine even with the dot for 3-4 months, and now i get<br>this warning, which by the way now gives me trouble, for example amule<br>displays a warning, but starts in the background if i start it from a kde
<br>icon, if i start it from command line it does start, displays a warning, but<br>can be seen.<br>thanks for the quick reply<br><br><br>>On Tuesday 22 November 2005 12:41, Daniel Silverstone wrote:<br>> On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 12:32 +0100, john wrote:
<br>> > I am using dapper drake, and get this irritating warning about my<br>> > hostname being invalid. I tried small.kubuntu, <a href="http://small.kubuntu.com">small.kubuntu.com</a>,<br>> > small_kubuntu, but hostnam just doesn't like it. I'd like to ask what are
<br>> > valid hostnames? eg.<br>> ><br>> > |root@mymachine:hostname small_kubuntu<br>> > |root@mymachine:hostname: the specified hostname is invalid<br>><br>> IIRC, valid hostnames will contain no dots, and will have no underscores
<br>> in them.<br>><br>> small-kubuntu should work<br>><br>> D.<br>><br>> --<br>> Daniel Silverstone <a href="http://www.digital-scurf.org/">http://www.digital-scurf.org/</a>
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