[lug] set host name

[Gordon Golding]

Setting the host name.
When I look on the internet, there are so many variations, I figured I'd ask for input.

On Fedora Core 4:
I install and check "set hostname via DHCP".  
In the local environment, anybody without a static address gets a default name made out of their IP address.

I put the same server out into a less sophisticated environment and it ends up with "localhost".

When I do a Java function to get the IP, it gets it via the hostname and returns 127.0.0.1

So I need to set the host name.   
On a machine where hostname isn't set, I have this in /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost

On a machine where I set it to myhost manually at install; etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1       myhost  localhost.localdomain   localhost

Is it that easy?  Add "myhost<TAB>" before localhost.localdomain?
-- 
Gordon Golding
aka Golding the Younger DH70
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