error message during RH 9 login

[Ko Fei Pu]

Greetings all:
I'm newbie here, so please bear with me.

I have a dual boot system w2k & RH9, w2k is in my MBR, sometime after I
login to Linux, I got the following error message:
Could not look up internet address for localhost.
This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly.
It may be possible to correct the problem by adding
localhost to the file /etc/hosts.

I've add the following enty to my /etc/host file (originally it was empty):
localhost 10.10.0.1

my environment is:
RH9 server, dsl with dhcp (the ip address should be given by dns server,
how can I tell the system to get the ip address automatically from dns
server of dsl provider?)

I remember seeing some where a posting about linux server & dsl is not
recommended, anybody has similar setup as mine?

All comments and suggestions is much appreciated.

TIA

[David]

Ko Fei Pu wrote:

> Greetings all:
> I'm newbie here, so please bear with me.
>
> I have a dual boot system w2k & RH9, w2k is in my MBR, sometime after I
> login to Linux, I got the following error message:
> Could not look up internet address for localhost.
> This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly.
> It may be possible to correct the problem by adding
> localhost to the file /etc/hosts.
>
> I've add the following enty to my /etc/host file (originally it was empty):
> localhost 10.10.0.1

You have the order reversed. It should also look more like this.

127.0.0.1 localhost
10.10.0.1 hostname.your.domain hostname

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[Ko Fei Pu]

David wrote:

> You have the order reversed. It should also look more like this.
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 10.10.0.1 hostname.your.domain hostname
>

Thanks so much for alerting me to my mistake, it seems solved the
problem, because it's random, I'll keep an eye for the error.

Thanks