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. -- Julien Olivier <julo@xxxxxxxxxx>