[CentOS] domain name display issue in linux pc

[John R Pierce]

padmaja.rv at vodcalabs.com wrote:
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> the /etc/hosts file has the following content:
>
>
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
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> # that require network functionality will fail.
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> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost sipserver
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> 192.168.50.51 sipserver.vodcalocal.com
>

take 'sipserver' /off/ the localhost line and add it to the regular IP 
line.   I'm not sure /why/ anacdonda or whatever insists on doing this, 
but using your hostname as localhost is generally quite wrong and can 
result in all sorts of odd little behaviors.