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dnsdomainname: Host name lookup failure

I got the line in my /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1       linux.alan.home         localhost

I got the line in my /etc/HOSTNAME

linux.alan.home

I can't use term properly due to the host name errors. Help.

Hi Alan,

This is NOT the way this is done! You can NOT use 127.0.0.1 as your
valid IP address. You have to get yourself something else, best to
speak to the network administrator of your university and find out how
to get a valid IP address (differs from country to country).

If you don't plan to connect the system into the internet at all,
ever, you can use any address you like, something like 196.1.1.1 would
just work fine (but then why install the networking components at
all).

Kind regards,
Chris

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If you do not have a valid IP address and are not going to get one I
might I suggest you use one of ones allocated for local use? You can
use 10.x.x.x and 192.168.x.x at least. These addresses will not confuse
anybody.

BTW most IP providers will assign you an address either statically or
dynamically. They will almost certainly have some of the address space
allocated to them to use as they see fit.

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Duncan (-:

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