Re: Problem with DHCP, /etc/hosts and GNOME

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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>



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