On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 12:40:10PM -0500, Sreekumar Kodakara wrote:
> I want to set the name of a linux system. I edited the etc/hosts file to
> include the name. The change gets reflected but I am not able to ping the
> machine using the new name of the machine. It says hosts not found.
> Is there anything else which I must do?

1. What Linux distribution are you using?

2. What is now the contents of /etc/hosts?

3. What networks does your computer belong to?

florin

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