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fuscia

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 398

i'm struggling with /etc/hosts

i know it's supposed to be something like

127.0.0.1      banana.domain.org   localhost.localdomain      localhost    banana

is that the number to use for everyone, or do i have a number i don't know anything about?

i assume banana is to be replaced by the name of my computer, "fuscianator" and not my username, "fuscia", is that correct?

what's this domain.org stuff? do i really just literally put down "domain.org"?

do i really only have to replace "banana" with "fuscianator" and leave everything else the same?

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update: i went ahead and did the last thing, anyway. so far, nothing's blown up, though, nothing's all that different.

Last edited by fuscia (2008-06-30 07:58:19)

muunleit

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-02-23

Posts: 234

Re: i'm struggling with /etc/hosts

I think you have read this => Beginners Guide - hosts, did you?

"banana" has to be replaced with your computers name.
If you use dhcp, this should be all you need to change in hosts.

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fuscia

Member

Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 398

Re: i'm struggling with /etc/hosts

I think you have read this => Beginners Guide - hosts, did you?

"banana" has to be replaced with your computers name.
If you use dhcp, this should be all you need to change in hosts.

i do use dhcp, so i don't need that 'domain.org' thing. thanks.