named sandbox trouble

[Robert Downes]

Brian Reichert wrote:

>On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 04:59:35AM +0100, Robert Downes wrote:
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>>I'm trying to setup BIND so that my machine understands its own hostname 
>>(because mySQL refuses to install because the hostname appears invalid 
>>and the --force option seems to do nothing), and because it would be 
>>helpful generally.
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>This doesn't answer your question, as I don't run BIND, but couldn't
>you just put an entry in /etc/hosts?
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I have an entry for my machine's IP address and the address of my router 
in /etc/hosts, but still I get complaints.

>And: you mention MySQL --force option 'seeming to do nothing':  I
>have used this option when I'm building from source, and it worked
>for me in the past.  What symptoms are you seeing?
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I type make install --force, but still the process exits with error code 
1, complaining of an invalid hostname, despite my /etc/hosts file.

I was hoping that running a local name server would cheer mySQL up, but 
I just keep getting this error with /var/run/ndc.
--
Bob