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Here's the problem. I have a wireless router at home, which acts as the primary name server as well. I'm using DHCP. Here is a sequence of troublesome commands:
$ hostname
diwaker
$ hostname -i
hostname: Unknown host
$ host diwaker
Host diwaker not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
$ host 172.16.1.33
33.1.16.172.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer diwaker.gateway.2wire.net.
eeeh diwaker is your machine hostname, right?
Remember that your router only do request to your ISP dns server, it doesn't contain any zone or configuration that may lead him to you. And since diwaker.gateway.2wire.net probably doesn't exist in your ISP database, it can't find you.
Well thats not entirely true. I think the router maintains a local DNS as well. I have another machine called florence with exactly the same configuration, and all the commands I wrote earlier work fine for it.
eeeh ok, weird tool... maybe the router may be configurated to hold your hostname or find your hostname in NetBios (you knowm, Windoze share of Linux Samba) packets. Take a look at the user manual of your router, there should be explaination somwhere in it.
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