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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Host name
Date: 24 Jun 1996 09:15:00 GMT
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bacon@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Jason Bacon) wrote:

> I'm having trouble getting my host name set up.  At boot time, I get
> 
> 	myname.my.domain: BAD VALUE
> 
> Afterwards, the mail daemon gives me
> 
> 	My host name (myname.my.domain) does not seem to exist!:

Put

127.0.0.1	localhost	myname.my.domain.

into your /etc/hosts.  (Take care of the trailing dot.)

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j