Re: Name of computer

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Wojciech Komornicki wrote:
I get my IP address from DHCP and so, according to the default
installation of FC4, my computer is named localhost.localdomain.  Can I
give my computer a different name and still get its IP address from
DHCP?

If your DHCP server includes information about DNS servers, and the DNS servers it specifies can reverse-resolve your IP address to a hostname (i.e. you have set up reverse DNS properly), then your hostname will be set to the name found by reverse DNS.

Paul.


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