On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 8:32 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > The problem is that the $HOSTNAME for the system isn't published in > DNS, nor is it the first hostname for a line in /etc/hosts, so the > "hostname --fqdn" is not finding it associated with your IP addresses. > The usual approach for portable laptops is to put a line like this in > /etc/hosts somewhere. > > 127.0.0.1 mymachine.mydomain Also note that this needs to be unique on each machine, or they may have considerable difficulty talking to each other, especially if you copy around /etc/hosts files for different machines. I actually publish a chef cookbook for this, at https://github.com/nkadel-skyhook/nkadel-chef-hosts