Netgear RP114 Problem

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 19.11.2004 schrieb Chris LaForce um 1:39:

> > Give your host a hostname, means change it from localhost. You can do so
> > by running system-config-network. Else edit /etc/sysconfig/network
> > (HOSTNAME=) and /etc/hosts.

> In all of these my hostname says localhost\@localdoman so I don't know
> where the dhcppc2 is coming from.

> Chris.

Chris, this has been explained in the past. localhost is no valid
network name as every host is localhost. Therefor the ifup script does
change the hostname when setting up the interface and querying the DHCP
server. To prevent this give it a different hostname (as I said above).

Alexander
 

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