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Old 31st January 2009
idefix idefix is offline
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Default could not look up internet address for .lan

Hi all,
I installed xfce as a desktop environment. Everything works fine, except that at startup of xfce I always get a message:

Quote:
could not look up internet address for .lan
This will prevent Xfce from operating correctly.
It may be possible to correct the problem by adding
.lan to the file /etc/hosts on your system
Then I have 2 buttons: "Continue anyway" and "Retry". When I choose "Continue" xfce works fine.
How can I fix this?

My /etc/hosts contains 2 lines:
Code:
 ::1     localhost localhost.my.domain
127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.my.domain
In what form should .lan be added?
Thanks in advance for a reply.
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Old 31st January 2009
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/etc/hosts should be set by default from sysinstall when you have installed FreeBSD, unless you haven't configured your NIC during install.

You haven't set the hostname of the system in /etc/hosts

Usually use this form of setting the hostname of the system in /etc/hosts
Code:
<ip_address>      <hostname.domain> <hostname>
<ip_address>      <hostname>.
If you used for hostname 'lan' and domain for example 'mydomain' use should add these lines to /etc/hosts (10.35.1.90 in this case should be your ip address)

Code:
10.35.1.90        lan.mydomain lan
10.35.1.90        lan.mydomain.
See also hosts(5)
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Thanks, DNAeon, that works!
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