Hostname

[VengfulSquirrel]

This could be more of a linux question than a plesk question but I keep getting this error when trying to upgrade plesk 7.5.4 to plesk 8.0 in suse 9.3. Does my host name have to be tied to a valid ip address? Right now I am trying to use 192.168.1.35. And I can ping my host name so I don't see how it could not be resolved... What am I doing wrong?

Unable to resolve host name.
Please specify the host name in the /etc/hosts file
or specify DNS configuration in the /etc/resolv.conf file on your system.

-Ian

 

[phoenixisp]

What are the contents of your /etc/hosts and /etc/resolve.conf files?

 

[VengfulSquirrel]

www:/usr/local/psa # cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1       localhost
192.168.1.35 www localdomain
www:/usr/local/psa # cat /etc/resolv.conf
domain localdomain
nameserver ***.***.***.***
nameserver ***.***.***.***
www:/usr/local/psa #

OR

www:~ # cat /etc/hosts /etc/resolv.conf
127.0.0.1       localhost
192.168.1.35 [url]www.localdomain[/url] localdomain
domain localdomain
nameserver ***.***.***.***
nameserver ***.***.***.***
www:~ #

I *'ed out the dns servers because I am illogically paranoid. Does the host name need to be resolved through strictly the dns servers?

 

[phoenixisp]

Here's how they should be. Keep in mind that a host name is not a www

/etc/hosts
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127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.35 host.mydomainname.com host
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/etc/resolve.conf
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nameserver ***.***.***.**1
nameserver ***.***.***.**2
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Then a dns "A" entry should be made for host.mydomainname.com

host.mydomainname.com A 192.168.1.35