Re: Hostname questions

["Jean-Christian Imbeault" <jean_christian@example.com>]

>From: Thomas O'Dowd <tom@example.com>

You said:

>If you don't want anyone to know about the machine, then just
>give it a private name in /etc/hosts and don't bother with DNS.
>The machine will be happy aslong as it knows who it is

And also said:

>The entry in /etc/sysconfig/network tells the host what its
>name is.

Doh! This just adds to my confusion :) Doesn't the machine already know who 
it is using the HOSTNAME= entry in /etc/sysconfig/network?

Does this mean that the OS knows it's own name, and it's own IP address, but 
can't (by itslef) map one to the other? It needs /etc/hosts to do this, even 
for it's own name?

>Maybe I should have written that in python. My English sucks...

Nah, the problem is that my questions are too basic. I find that answers to 
complex questions are easy to type up. Answers to basic questions are 
impossibly complex to write ;)

Jc
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