On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 12:49 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 10:04 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 08:41 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 07:48 -0400, Alfred von Campe wrote: > > > > On May 20, 2006, at 7:33, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > ><snip> > > The problem is ... if you have DHCP ... you need the name of the machine > > in the same line, as your IP address changes > > <snip sig> > > [hardtolove at wlmlfs08 ~]$ cat /etc/hosts > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > # that require network functionality will fail. > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > > This is my workstation behind an IPCop DHCP server. I have detected no > problesm, but I'm only running typical workstation stuff. So there may > be some apps that don't work? > > This is on my IPCop firewall/gateway, which gets its IP from my cable > co. DHCP server. > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > # that require network functionality will fail. > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > > Again, no problems. But this node *only runs IPCop and associated (https > for admin, caching DNS, ntp client and server for the rest of my net). > > But it appears from this and my past experience that mature applications > in a networking env are OK. If one has no network...? > > I'd be glad to try a couple things, if they are not to expensive in > terms of change or time and report back if it helps anyone. *sigh* I see that I really should have given a 2nd thought before hitting send. All my nodes keep their nodenames ok. Even as IP changes. I can ref all nodes by node name or IP equally well. Dig and nslookup act as expected. This is a result of taking advantage of the client's ability to keep its nodename in the configuration and that overrides my IPCop nodename that would be generated. So, I'll post in a few more moments what my configs look like. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Bill -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060520/7e953a2f/attachment-0005.sig>