On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 15:51 +0100, Michael Thompson wrote: > When I change the hostname on my fedora 12 box, from the installation > default of localhost.localdomain, the network dies until it is reset > back. "localhost" is assumed always to exist and to be bound to 127.0.0.1 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localhost). You can of course give your machine another name as well (just add additional names to the localhost line in /etc/hosts), but you can't remove the meaning of localhost without breaking things. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines