Why hostname command display (none) in RHEL6?

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

While adding ipV6 address after rebooting manually due to network failure, hostname become (none) in terminal as below when running hostname command after connecting console.

[root@(none) ~ ] #

And also, either tar and traceroute command such as binary commands in net-tools rpm packages is also not executed normally.
In addition, sftp connection was not available through ssh port 22.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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