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?
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 wrote:
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.
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