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[RCH-WebHosting]

MPORTANT: Do not ignore this email.
The hostname (server.mydomain.com) resolves to . It should resolve to xx.xx.xxx.xx. Please be sure to correct /etc/hosts as well as the 'A' entry in zone file for the domain.

Some are all of these problems can be caused by
/etc/resolv.conf being setup incorrectly. Please check this file if you
believe everything else is correct.


You may be able to
automaticly correct this problem by using the ' Add an A entry for your
hostname ' under ' Dns Functions ' in your Web Host Manager

Can someone suggest how to correct this?

I did what it says under you may be able to.

Thanks

Chris

[RackSolidHost]

have you pointed your domain to the server IP adress yet?

[A Grateful Dad]

You must have an A Record the resolves back to your server name...

i.e;

snuffy.sesamestreet.com A 111.111.111.112

So what ever your hostname of the server is has to have an A record pointing back to that IP address.

A Grateful Dad

[servertechs]

Check your

cat /etc/hosts
X.x.x.x hostname.srv.com server
127.0.0.1 localhost

[RCH-WebHosting]

how do I do that?

can I use PuTTY?

[iHubNet-Matt]

Yes you can use PuTTY to login to the server and you can edit the specific file(/etc/hosts) and add the line in it.

X.x.x.x hostname.srv.com server

[RCH-WebHosting]

So, login via PuTTY,

Enter

/etc/hosts/
my.ip.address servername.domain.com

?

[MKHosting]

You will need to use an editor such as nano so the command to edit the file would be:

nano /etc/hosts