Chris wrote: > 2012/2/8 Tony Schreiner <anthony.schreiner at bc.edu>: >> On Feb 8, 2012, at 4:22 PM, Chris wrote: >>> >>> I have several machines running CentOS 6.2 and a strange problem with >>> the hostname of one machine... After every reboot it loses the fqdn >>> hostname. <snip> >>> Everything is okay ... >>> >>> Something I've never experienced before. Does anyone have an idea? <snip> > I have 5 systems with the same DNS configuration. (name servers in > /etc/resolv.conf) > > It seems that /etc/hosts is ignored.. on this system only. But I do > not know why :( AH! A light may be dawning. What's the hosts line in /etc/nsswitch.conf? mark