Slow Booting? Include RHEL/CentOS Linux hostname in /etc/hosts file

In a classroom or lab environment, it is easy to create non-typical situations and cause RHEL/CentOS Linux to behave badly. Such was the case over the past week for one of my personal lab servers. The server is stand alone and does not belong to a domain. It is not configured as a DNS or DHCP server at the present time. Continue reading “Slow Booting? Include RHEL/CentOS Linux hostname in /etc/hosts file”