<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 5:08 AM, Mike Perkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk">mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</div>And:<br>
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/etc/hosts<br>
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127.0.0.1 dragon.localdomain dragon<br>
::1 dragon6.localdomain6 dragon6<br>
192.168.1.13 server.localdomain server<br>
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</div>Your /etc/hosts is wrong. 'dragon' should be set to 192.168.1.122 *on both<br>
machines*.<br></blockquote><div><br><br>That /etc/hosts is on dragon and as far as I know (and have always done) that is the right way to set it up.<br><br>If there is a better way to set it up, I'd like to know.<br>
<br>From what I know, /etc/hosts reflects what the network looks like for the machine it resides on, and for it (dragon), dragon is 127.0.0.1.<br><br>/etc/hosts on server looks like this<br>===================================<br>
127.0.0.1 server.localdomain server<br>::1 server6.localdomain6 server6<br>===================================<br><br>Dragon doesn't have an entry there because its IP is assigned by DHCP when it connects to the network and I am not running a DNS server.<br>
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