On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 23:25 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > I'm pretty sure my setup is supposed to get the > > hostname through through dhcp. That is the way > > it worked when I first managed to connect it > > to the internet. > > > > Ideas anyone? > > DHCP gives you an IP address, not a hostname. The hostname then comes > from doing a reverse lookup of the IP address (usually using DNS, but in > some environments this might be a hosts file, NIS etc.). Thanks. My IP address is 24.117.45.226. nslookup 24.117.45.226 produces 24-117-45-226.cpe.cableone.net. hostname produces stmike. /etc/hosts contains only # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost I that infer my machine has not been getting its hostname through DNS. Is there a way to ask the system where it did get the hostname? -- Mike hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES. *I* ONLY TURN UP ONCE." -- Death
