Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 13888
GUI install w/ wrong DNS IP: localhost.localdomain used, /etc/hosts wrong.
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:56 EDT
I did a fresh GUI workstation install. This computer has two network interfaces. I chose to enable eth0 in install, entered all data for it including the hostname. HOWEVER, I put in a wrong IP for DNS server. This (either just GUI or both GUI and wrong IP) causes the following: - /etc/hosts is setupped wrong: myhost.mydoma.in etc. are in localhost line - /etc/sysconfig/network etc. define hostname as localhost.localdomain. I haven't done any GUI installs since RH 6.1, so I don't know if this issue is with the wrong DNS server or something else. TUI installs using _correct_ DNS address works fine. Haven't tried with wrong address.
NFS install, have been able to reproduce consistantly on Alpha with one network card. It will set the proper hostname in /etc/hosts but /etc/sysconfig/network will still say localhost.localdomain.
User error - use the right IP for the DNS.
I beg to differ. The installer asks for [IIRC] - hostname - IP - default gateway - nameservers If all the other entries are filled correctly, why should an incorrect nameserver entry cause them to be configured wrong? I think that hostname should automatically be entered into /etc/sysconfig/network. Also, IP address, hostname -pair should be written to /etc/hosts from the settings above. And lastly, /etc/resolv.conf would have the nameservers as defined. Now entering a wrong nameserver entry kills (almost) the whole network configuration, so to speak. What if the user just wanted to install from a site where there actually is no connectivity yet (It's a CD-ROM install after all..)?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 13486 ***