RedHat Server

[IronBits]

When I login, gnome is the default GUI (no biggy)
but I get an error message about it not being able to lookup the address of the Server epox.dbestern.com and gnome may not function properly... or something like that.
Do I want to login anyways?
I say YES, log me in anyways...

The DF client can not upload work, yet I can ping the www.distributedfolding.org site, and I can browse the internet, and I can use nslookup and find other systems out there just fine.
Yet another symptom of something not being right with the networking I fear.

Dyyryath, any solutions or suggestions? Anyone?

Thanks!

[Dyyryath]

You have a DNS problem. You can make the error message go away by adding a line for epox.dbestern.net in the /etc/hosts file, but that won't solve your DNS problem. Of course, you obviously have *some* DNS resolution since you can lookup addresses.

You don't appear to have setup DNS entries for epox under your domain name. Is this box on the Internet with a real IP address? Is it behind a firewall? Email me the details and we'll fix it. It's not a big deal, whatever it is.

[rsbriggs]

And, you are probably missing the 127.0.0.1 entry in /etc/hosts

[IronBits]

Well how the hell...?
127.0.0.1 localhost entry was missing :(
the workstations are all using ypbind, so I'll check the services and make sure it's running on the Server.
Never heard of this ypbind thang.

[rsbriggs]

This is a Red Hat problem - if you use their graphical network configuration tool, it loses the localhost line out of the hosts file.... Nobody ELSE seems bothered by that, so I've always assumed that it's just some sort of problem that I have with it.....

[IronBits]

Originally posted by Dyyryath
You don't appear to have setup DNS entries for epox under your domain name. Is this box on the Internet with a real IP address? Is it behind a firewall? Email me the details and we'll fix it. It's not a big deal, whatever it is. The Server and all workstations are behind my SMC router/firewall.
DNS Server is Windows 2000 192.168.2.2
DHCP is the Redhat Server 192.168.2.20
I have added epox.dbestern.com to the DNS Server

They all can resolve internet addresses, but none of them can get/upload work from the DF servers.
I really believe the problem is actually on the Redhat Server, because it can't do DF either.
I know, should have stuck with Manrake :rolleyes: ;)
hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.2.20 epox.dbestern.com epox
192.168.2.1 router
192.168.2.2 jimmy.dbestern.com jimmy
192.168.2.3 dbest.dbestern.com dbest
192.168.2.5 ether.dbestern.net ether
192.168.2.201 ws001
192.168.2.202 ws002
192.168.2.203 ws003
192.168.2.204 ws004
192.168.2.205 ws005
192.168.2.206 ws006

[IronBits]

From the Redhat Server (epox) I can not ping epox, nor localhost.
it always says host unknown. wtf?

[IronBits]

NM - Re-installing Redhat from scratch.

[PCZ]

If you havent already trashed the Red Hat server.

Could you type: route at a shell prompt.

have a look at the IP address of the default gateway.