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# 1  
Old 08-28-2008
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Hi Good Day!

I have a fedora 8 installed and I wan't to change its hostname since the default hostname is "localhost.localdomain". I wanna change it to something different. Please some one advice what to do. Do I have to change the entry in "/etc/hosts" or there's other way to do it?
# 2  
Old 08-28-2008
You need to change the hostname in both /etc/hosts and /etc/sysconfig/network.
# 3  
Old 08-28-2008
I had already changed the entry on both location. I still have one more question?

Do I really have to include the domain in the entry?

Please bear with me, I'm still a newbie on linux. BTW, I am using DHCP, will this affect.

I mean I had not included a domain on /etc/hosts. Does this affect my network functionality or my network functionality will fail?
# 4  
Old 08-28-2008
No, the full doman name is not required.
# 5  
Old 08-29-2008
Thanks MacMonster.

Mac...

Why is it when I'm on windows I could not ping using the newly assigned hostname?

I can ping the IP Address. Do I need to assign a static ip for my linux?
# 6  
Old 08-29-2008
You need to add the hostname and IP address either to the hosts file on your Windows system (usually C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\Etc\Hosts) or to your DNS server, if you have one.
# 7  
Old 08-29-2008
Thank You Annihilannic, It already works.Smilie
I'm too numb that I didn't think
Quote:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Thanks to you all.Smilie
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