Thanks. That and some other fiddling seemed to make it work.

Now if only I could figure out why isql is working without a login of
any kind (no user or password--not as secure as I'd planned....)

J M Craig

--- In ib-support@y..., "Elton Labajo" <elton@b...> wrote:
<snip>
> [root@ns1 /root]# hostname
> ns1.xxxxx.xxx.xxx (censored)
> [root@ns1 /root]#
> the command should return your complete hostname including the domain.
> then try to add it to /etc/hosts
> restart and viola!