problems switching from DSL to Cable internet with Red Hat 9

Hi,

I just switched from DSL (Bell Sympatico) to Cable internet (Cogeco)
because Cogeco had a 5 month special and they up'd their speeds to 5
Mbps... They configured my computer to work under WinXP, but I have a
dual boot system running Red Hat 9.

I didn't have too many problems getting cable internet to work with
Red Hat 9, but now I seem to be running into other problems that I
don't like. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.


First, instead of booting up to the welcome screen saying
"localhost.localdomain" it displays the MAC address for my network
card.


Second, in the shell it displays the MAC address instead of
"localhost". (eg. root@x1-6-00-50-ba-a4-52-41 instead of
root@localhost).


Third, when I try to start up Apache for some personal website
development I get an error. It doesn't seem to read the hosts file
properly. I get the error

httpd: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name,
using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName

However, my /etc/hosts file says:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.0.2 digitalmeister testsite

I'm now unable to access 127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.2 or any of the alias's.

Everything was fine using a DSL connection.

Any help is appreciated. Perhaps someone could point me a good How-To
document or an article on the internet. I've been searching and
reading, but perhaps I'm searching in the wrong direction, or just
misinterpreting my problem, so I'm unable to find a solution.

Thanks,
Wayne D.

On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 20:12:07 -0800, wdeleersnyder wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just switched from DSL (Bell Sympatico) to Cable internet (Cogeco)
> because Cogeco had a 5 month special and they up'd their speeds to 5
> Mbps... They configured my computer to work under WinXP, but I have a
> dual boot system running Red Hat 9.
>
> I didn't have too many problems getting cable internet to work with
> Red Hat 9, but now I seem to be running into other problems that I
> don't like. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.
>
>
> First, instead of booting up to the welcome screen saying
> "localhost.localdomain" it displays the MAC address for my network
> card.
>
>
> Second, in the shell it displays the MAC address instead of
> "localhost". (eg. root@x1-6-00-50-ba-a4-52-41 instead of
> root@localhost).

your hostname has been changed to x1-6-00-50-ba-a4-52-41
change it to whatever you want by modifying /etc/sysconfig/network
so it looks like:
[root@mail sysconfig]# cat network
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=digitalmeister

> Third, when I try to start up Apache for some personal website
> development I get an error. It doesn't seem to read the hosts file
> properly. I get the error
>
> httpd: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name,
> using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
>
> However, my /etc/hosts file says:
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> 127.0.0.2 digitalmeister testsite

change your /etc/hosts to
127.0.0.1 digitalmeister localhost.localdomain localhost
# i'm assuming 127.0.0.2 is a virtual host - bad address to use, use
192.168.0.1 testsite

check your /etc/host.conf file so that it looks at your hosts file first
and then dns

[root@mail etc]# cat host.conf
order hosts,bind


=======================================
<there is no number in my email address>

The problem is that your ISP (cable) has a reverse DNS entry for your
machine and your DSL provider did not. When a Linux box boots up, it uses
the reverse for the hostname on the login screen.

Your best bet is to get a router and plug that into your cable line and let
it handle the connection. Then plug your linux box into the router and let
the router hand you the internal DHCP address rather than the external one
from the cable co. This way your will become root@localhost again.

plus, you will have some firewall capability now that you might not have had
before.

Hope this helps.



<wdeleersnyder@cogeco.ca> wrote in message
news:fa2c5207.0402032012.42c54724@posting.google.c om...
> Hi,
>
> I just switched from DSL (Bell Sympatico) to Cable internet (Cogeco)
> because Cogeco had a 5 month special and they up'd their speeds to 5
> Mbps... They configured my computer to work under WinXP, but I have a
> dual boot system running Red Hat 9.
>
> I didn't have too many problems getting cable internet to work with
> Red Hat 9, but now I seem to be running into other problems that I
> don't like. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.
>
>
> First, instead of booting up to the welcome screen saying
> "localhost.localdomain" it displays the MAC address for my network
> card.
>
>
> Second, in the shell it displays the MAC address instead of
> "localhost". (eg. root@x1-6-00-50-ba-a4-52-41 instead of
> root@localhost).
>
>
> Third, when I try to start up Apache for some personal website
> development I get an error. It doesn't seem to read the hosts file
> properly. I get the error
>
> httpd: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name,
> using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
>
> However, my /etc/hosts file says:
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> 127.0.0.2 digitalmeister testsite
>
> I'm now unable to access 127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.2 or any of the alias's.
>
> Everything was fine using a DSL connection.
>
> Any help is appreciated. Perhaps someone could point me a good How-To
> document or an article on the internet. I've been searching and
> reading, but perhaps I'm searching in the wrong direction, or just
> misinterpreting my problem, so I'm unable to find a solution.
>
> Thanks,
> Wayne D.