Computer named changed by itself
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Wed Jan 18 13:47:46 UTC 2006
Roberto Alfonso wrote:
> I rebooted my FC4 yesterday and found out that my computer name changed
> from what it was before "quorpus" to "dhcp-3985-428" so when I log in have
Somebody has probably set up reverse DNS for your network, so that a
lookup of the IP address you've been issued using DHCP returns
"dhcp-3985-428". As far as the network is concerned, that *is* your
hostname.
Paul.
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