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12-31-2004, 07:53 PM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: CA USA
Distribution: FC2, FC4, Mandrake 10, Slackware 10, RedHat 9, Suse 9.1, College Linux, Debian Sarge, Gentoo
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hostname changed - why?
I had my hostname set automaticaly: home
and now all of sudden it has changed to something strange: home-s67118jfgn
???
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12-31-2004, 07:59 PM
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Registered: Jan 2001
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Re: hostname changed - why?
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Originally posted by greg108
I had my hostname set automaticaly: home
and now all of sudden it has changed to something strange: home-s67118jfgn
???
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Are you on a DHCP connection from your ISP? At times it will detect the provided hostname they assign out with IP's, etc.
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12-31-2004, 08:36 PM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: CA USA
Distribution: FC2, FC4, Mandrake 10, Slackware 10, RedHat 9, Suse 9.1, College Linux, Debian Sarge, Gentoo
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Now I realized that I reinstalled winXP on the secend HD and I think win set the new computer name on my dsl modem.
Is there any way I can change that?
I don't want my command prompt to look like this: [greg@home-s67118jfgn greg]$
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12-31-2004, 08:41 PM
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Location: GA
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I've always used netconfig.
There is a way to manually edit your hostname, by editing /etc/hosts and changing it, but netconfig has always done a better job for me.
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