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Make hostname resolvable for Scaleway servers
$ sudo vi /etc/hostname
servername (usually scw-xxxxxx)

Save & exit.

$ sudo vi /etc/hosts
127.0.1.1       scw-xxxxxx scw-xxxxxx
127.0.0.1       localhost

# This is 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

Save, exit and restart service:

$ sudo service hostname restart

Finally, verify that the hostname was properly set:

$ hostname or hostname -f or hostname --fqdn
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