attempted printing: error hostname bad

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 15:01, jaredm wrote:
> When I try to lp a text file I get an error message that says 
> "Get_local_host: hostname 'www.whatever.com' bad". It doesn't actually 
> say whatever.com but has some of my ip and address in there. How do you 
> fix this? I have read somewhere you have to alter the /etc/hosts file to 
> include your ip address, hostname, and hostname domain. I have no idea 
> how I can identify them and when I looked in the /etc/hosts file it only 
> includes the local ip address 127.0.0.1 and my local domain name and 
> localhost.
> 
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much better to use the discuss list and not the develop list for this.

try
man hosts

you will need to learn a few basics about tcp/ip

Craig