Is 'amidala' a reference to your Linode? Please provide the output from the following two commands: cat /etc/hostname cat /etc/hosts

Many thanks for replying.

alan@amidala:~$ cat /etc/hostname
amidala
alan@amidala:~$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1    localhost
127.0.1.1    ubuntu

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

Thanks again

Boomfelled,

You don't have any reference to 'amidala' in your hosts file. That's why it's not resolving. You may have missed this:

https://library.linode.com/getting-star … -etc-hosts">https://library.linode.com/getting-started#sph_update-etc-hosts

Great, that's fixed it, I must have missed that somehow.

Thanks again for your help. :-)

Glad I could help.

mine is showing this
root@agriloan:~# cat /etc/hostname
agriloan
root@agriloan:~# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost

The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts

::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters