[mvapich-discuss] Re: Problems with hostname resolution and MPI_INIT() (Mike Heinz)

[Christian Guggenberger]

> entry on /etc/hosts. Of course, with this, no more mvapich code change for 
> me.  May be the solution to this is let mvapich install guide to advise or 
> recommend to create entry for hostname in /etc/hosts, and to warn the 
> potential problem if added it into 127.0.0.1. (May be this is already been 
> done and, well, I have to admit that I did not read the entire install 
> guide. )
> 

I agree with Terrence to have such an advice in the FAQ/install guid. 
One could then also point out that hostnames should be RFC compliant. 
(people every now and then stumble across underscores in hostnames ...)

cheers.
 - Christian