Re: Revision 273 does not find fqdn

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:47:50PM +0200, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 05:42:13PM +1000, andrew wrote:
> > Revision 273 (slrn pre0.9.9-111) shows the following error on my
> > system:
> > 
> > Reading startup file /home/andrew/news/.slrnrc.
> > ***Warning: Unable to find a unique fully-qualified host name.
> >   slrn will not generate any Message-IDs.
> >   Please note that the "hostname" setting does not affect this;
> >   see the "slrn reference manual" for details.
> > 
> > This not present in Revision 272 and I have a valid fqdn:
> > 
> > andrew@ilium~$ hostname --fqdn
> > ilium.andrews-corner.org
> 
> That's probably caused by the patch I posted here few days ago.
> 
> Any chance you have specified in /etc/hosts an IPv6 address for ilium
> without FQDN?

Oops! On a closer examination it looks like ilium is set correctly in
/etc/hosts but it is sharing 127.0.0.1 with localhost for some reason.
Once I set the correct ip address for ilium the problem was resolved.

I can only hope that there is a very small audience for my
embarrassment :-)

Thanks for steering me to my error!

   Andrew

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