add a second line to your /etc/hosts with your new information.

So your /etc/hosts/ should look like this:

127.0.0.1        localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.0.1        home.happy home

Dusty



> 
> I need help trying to get my computer to perform a host name lookup when
> starting KDE & Gnome. I have checked my etc/hosts file and set it to the
> following:
> 
> 127.0.0.1        home.happy home
> 
> and my etc/sysconfig/network file:
> 
> NETWORKING=yes
> FORWARD_IPV4=false
> HOSTNAME=home.happy
> DOMAINNAME=home
> 
> Things work fine until I reboot, during the boot-up process, the computer
> informs me that it is "correcting" the etc/hosts file back to:
> 
> 127.0.0.1        localhost.localdomain localhost
> 
> I have tried changing the etc/sysconfig/netwrok file so that
> hostname=localhost.localdomain & domainname=localdomain. But KDE and Gnome
> still cannot perfomr a host name lookup. Is there a setting somewhere else
> that I need to set as well?
> 
> I'm running Mandrake 8.1
> 
> Thanks,
> Rodney
> 
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