Quote Originally Posted by Vegan View Post
can I see you /etc/hosts file too please
sure thing. I am actually trying this with a fresh install of ubuntu server with no LAMP as per this guide. I was able to reproduce the behavior on this other computer.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=632841

Following this thread from a new install gives me this:

Code:
skylar@ABCtest:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/ddclient restart
 * Restarting Dynamic DNS service update utility ddclient                [ OK ] 
skylar@ABCtest:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
 * Reconfiguring network interfaces...                                   [ OK ] 
skylar@ABCtest:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
 * Restarting web server apache2                                                apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
                                                                         [ OK ]
skylar@ABCtest:~$
Oh yeah, and the /etc/hosts file:

Code:
127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.1.1       ABCtest

# 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
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts