---- Bill Crawford <billcrawford1970@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 19 February 2009 16:20:49 Steve wrote: > > > I've been on a long wild goose chase trying to figure out why I get one of > > two different hostnames alternatively when I boot the system. Based on what > > I read in the dhclient man page, I believed that the hostname was provided > > by the dhcp server in a dhcp protocol message. While that may still be > > true, my F9 system does not use that potential source of information to set > > the hostname. The hostname is actually set in the > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-post script by this code: > > It *is* possible for a DHCP server to be giving you alternating addresses; it's > also possible you have two (or more) DHCP servers answering requests. One very > remote possibility is e.g. an old procurve (sp?) switch, once spent an hour or > two with a colleague tracking down a similar problem, where a random switch on > our network started replying to DHCP requests and would occasionally respond > faster than the "real" one. > > What are the results of running "host" on the IP address you get given? # host 192.168.1.186 186.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer host_1. 186.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer host_2. Steve -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
