Re: Computer named changed by itself

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To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Computer named changed by itself
From: Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:47:46 +0000
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Roberto Alfonso wrote:

I rebooted my FC4 yesterday and found out that my computer name changedfrom 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 alookup of the IP address you've been issued using DHCP returns"dhcp-3985-428". As far as the network is concerned, that *is* yourhostname.


Paul.

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