On Sun, 2019-05-19 at 14:23 -0400, Alex wrote: > The reason the hostname is displayed as "localhost.localdomain" is > because it's on a private IP range (192.168.9.110) without DNS, and > I'm using port forwarding from the cable modem to this host for port > 5900 through 6000. I'm not sure if VNC will handle localhost being its hostname, it will depend on how smart it is, or whether it bothers using hostnames. localhost, and localhost.localdomain will normally resolve back to 127.0.0.1 (meaning "itself"). As such, connections may not get put through to the remote side of things. While some things will also add the local IP address to that line in the /etc/hosts file, that can cause failures. The machine's hostname should resolve to its real IP (the one that other devices can reach it at). You don't need to have a DNS server to resolve hostnames. You can add it yourself to your /etc/hosts file (of course, you need to have a fixed IP for this to be consistent). _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
