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Em7add11
January 29th 2004, 01:21 AM
I have to confess, I'm completely illiterate with this OS and I need help. I tried setting up a DNS server the other day and that's when my problems started.

Right when I boot, things seem to work ok. But I loaded the terminal and noticed that it had /? for my hostname. So I used the hostname command to set it to something. Now I can't use the hostname command to get my hostname or my IP. Programs fail to load after waiting for about 30 seconds. I can't connect to apache or ssh anymore either.

When I tried to stop the DNS server, I get an error message about not having permission even though I run the command as root.

Help? :argh:

Em7add11
January 29th 2004, 01:34 AM
Hmm.

I logged out of KDE and into Gnome and had the same problem when I set the hostname again. So I logged out and back it and just didn't set the hostname and it works fine. Weird.