On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 02:55:18PM +0000, David Fletcher wrote: > At 13:36 18/01/2006, you wrote: > > > >I rebooted my FC4 yesterday and found out that my computer name > >changed from what it was before "quorpus" to "dhcp-3985-428" so when > >I log in have > > > >root@dhcp-3985-428 > > > >I haven t made any changes > > > >any suggestions to change the name and to prevent this happend again? > > > > I'm not the world's greatest expert on this, but are you by any > chance connecting directly to a modem or ADSL box etc. without any > sort of router in between your computer and the Internet? > > I had a problem something like this until I bought a router to plug > in between the computer(s) and the cable modem. The problem is that > the settings returned by the DHCP server at your ISP can change, > which might be what is happening here. In my case it resulted in my > printer suddenly not working. > > If you are connecting your computer using ethernet which is always > best to some sort of broadband connection, my advice is to get a > little router to put in between yourself and the Internet. The router > will have a built in DHCP server which is under your control and > therefore will not change unexpectedly, and also has other nice > features such as NAT which does a pretty good job of hiding you from > potential intruders. > > If you are using a conventional modem with an ordinary analogue phone > line then I'm sorry I don't know what to suggest. > > I agree. Somehow you were connected to a DHCP server that changed you computer ip and name. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
