---- Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > James Allsopp wrote: > > Hi, > > I've deactivated NetworkManager as it was interfering with my wireless > > networking, but since then my computer has been renamed to > > <ip-address>-bethere.co.uk, instead of localhost.localdomain. I've > > looked at /etc/hosts > > /etc/sysconfig/network > > and these are all set up as localhost.localdomain and the network card > > facing the internet is set up statically. > > > > Anyone have any ideas how to stop this happening? > > If you are running a DHCP client (and it looks like you are), the DHCP > server you're using gave your machine a host name. That's pretty > normal. I don't think that this is true. At least not if you're running dhcp-4.0.0 as I am on my F9 system. $ rpm -qa | grep dhclient dhclient-4.0.0-22.fc9.x86_64 I had thought the same thing but I recently spent some time sifting through the code to try to find where the host name is set. What I found is that it's not set by dhclient at all. It is set in the script /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-post by the ipcalc command which is passed the IP address that the DHCP server gives your machine. Essentially this is a DNS lookup. If you know otherwise or if this is not always true, I'd be interested to hear about it. > My guess is that your ISP is "bethere.co.uk", therefore they gave you > a hostname that reflects the IP address they gave you. That's good, > generally, because that means they're probably maintaining a reverse DNS > entry for your IP address that points at you. > > You can ignore the host name the DHCP server gives you by editing the > DHCP client config on your machine and adding > > supercede host-name localhost.localdomain; > > to the lease clause. See "man dhclient.conf" and "man dhcp-options". You can also put send host-name "my_host_name"; in the dhclient.conf file or add DHCP_HOSTNAME="my_host_name" to /etc/sysconfig/network 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
