[GLLUG] hostname difficulties

[Ben Pfaff]

"Todd Torrey" <todd_torrey at hotmail.com> writes:

> I'm running RH9. I've noticed that when I change the hostname using
> RH's network configuration wizard sometimes applications will take a
> very long time to launch. Changing the hostname back to the default
> 'localhost.localdomain' seems to fix the problem. Does anybody know
> why this is so?

I don't know what the RH network configuration wizard does,
chances are that the applications are trying to resolve the local
hostname and failing.  You should add your preferred hostname to
/etc/hosts or add them to DNS somehow.
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