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forkboy
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 Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 12:24 pm Post subject: Hostname changed to dhcppc0 since changing ISP |
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| Its not really a big deal but still somewhat annoying, /etc/conf.d/hostname is still HOSTNAME="localhost" and I've not changed anything else so why has it started doing this? |
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albright
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| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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man dhcpcd.conf says this:
| Quote: | If the hostname is currenly blank, (null) or localhost
then dhcpcd sets the hostname to the one supplied by the DHCP server. |
maybe you should try a real hostname (I like LotR elves myself  )
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forkboy
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| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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OK thanks for pointing that out, have a real hostname now although I was happy with localhost  god knows why it changed after changing ISPs |
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