[ic] Notes for Installing perl module LWP::Simple
Ed LaFrance
edl at newmediaems.com
Fri Oct 10 11:37:39 EDT 2003
At 12:58 PM 10/10/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi List,
> I recently ran into a problem that I wanted to post to the board for
>reference in regards to perl module LWP::Simple. I had problems with
>installation which would fail during testing. What I found was that if your
>host name is not resolved correctly via DNS that LWP::Simple will fail.
>
>Ex.) I had just built the server and named it test1 until I got it up. So
>in my /etc/sysconfig/network my hostname was posted test1. It was not till
>I added the full server name and domain test1.mydomain.com to my DNS server
>and then changed the vi /etc/sysconfig/network hostname from test1 to
>test1.mydomain.com and restarted networking did it finally install. I hope
>this message will save some people some aggravation looking in other
>directions.
>
>Sam Batschelet
>ExactaSphere Inc
Dear Sam -
DNS improprieties aside, another way around this issue (and generally
accepted practice anyway) is to add an entry for the server to its own
/etc/hosts file, i.e.:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
real.ip.addr.num myhost.mydomian.com myhost
- Ed L.
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