Problem with DHCP, /etc/hosts and GNOME
Julien Olivier
julo at altern.org
Thu Apr 8 20:57:48 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 21:24, Julien Olivier wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 19:39, duncan brown wrote:
> > but does anyone here remember seeing it in the fedora core installer?
> > they may have taken that out. i don't seem to remember it.
> >
>
> It's there but it doesn't work, at least for me. Whichever hostname I
> put in it, I always get the modem provided hostname. Can anyone confirm
> that it works for him ?
Replying to myself again.
I have found out where the problem came from:
if you set your hostname to localhost is the DNS tab in
system-config-network, it will override it using the DHCP server's
hostname.
But if you set the hostname to anything else in the DNS tab, it will
keep it.
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Julien Olivier <julo at altern.org>
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