Hostname

On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:02:25 GMT, Schewdent wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I set up my Redhat 9 box, my hostname was set to just
> localhost.localdomain . However when I boot up now, after being connected
> to the Internet, I get a "Welcome to 3342-hello-myisp.com"-ish message,

Please bookmark the following, very large,
Frequently Asked Questions (faq) Search engine:

http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search
google_tag_set_hostname in the first box
*linux* in Newsgroup, U need 2 use *, pick English

If you like, a second opinion
hostname changes
Results 1 - 10 of about 11,500 English messages for host name changes
group:*linux*. (2.01 seconds)

On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:37:19 GMT, Schewdent wrote:
>
> Er - I really prefer to talk to a human being mate That's what Usenet is
> for.

Please read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

> Almost every question here could be answered by a webpage, but I
> really prefer the social interaction.

Join a chat group then.

> Chill

Why should I have to retype what I have already typed because you are
too lazy use the provided link to the question.

Hi,

When I set up my Redhat 9 box, my hostname was set to just
localhost.localdomain . However when I boot up now, after being connected
to the Internet, I get a "Welcome to 3342-hello-myisp.com"-ish message,
ie. it's changed the hostname to that (I'm still seeing the "setting
hostname to localhost.localdomain on every bootup though). Can someone
please explain the intricacies of what's going on? I know that the
computer gets itself an IP address via DHCP, what's the program on MY
machine that handles this, and how do I configure it?

I want it to stop changing the bloody name to whatever my ISP feels I
should be called at the moment. However,... I'd *also* like to know
what name I WOULD have been assigned, if I want to, heh heh

How do I do this?


Thanks for all your help,


Schewdent.

On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 23:04:30 +0000, Bit Twister wrote:

> On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:02:25 GMT, Schewdent wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I set up my Redhat 9 box, my hostname was set to just
>> localhost.localdomain . However when I boot up now, after being connected
>> to the Internet, I get a "Welcome to 3342-hello-myisp.com"-ish message,
>
> Please bookmark the following, very large,
> Frequently Asked Questions (faq) Search engine:
>
> http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search
> google_tag_set_hostname in the first box
> *linux* in Newsgroup, U need 2 use *, pick English
>
> If you like, a second opinion
> hostname changes
> Results 1 - 10 of about 11,500 English messages for host name changes
> group:*linux*. (2.01 seconds)

Er - I really prefer to talk to a human being mate That's what Usenet is
for. Almost every question here could be answered by a webpage, but I
really prefer the social interaction. Chill


Schewdent.

On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:37:19 +0000 Schewdent wrote:

> Er - I really prefer to talk to a human being mate That's what Usenet is
> for. Almost every question here could be answered by a webpage, but I
> really prefer the social interaction. Chill

> Schewdent.

Join a local LUG (Linux User Group) and have a lot of social interaction.
What you ask is answered a lot of times already.

Btw. please don't crosspost to a couple of groups. [F'up set.]

Alexander


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"Schewdent" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news(E-Mail Removed):

> Hi,
>
> When I set up my Redhat 9 box, my hostname was set to just
> localhost.localdomain . However when I boot up now, after being connected
> to the Internet, I get a "Welcome to 3342-hello-myisp.com"-ish message,
> ie. it's changed the hostname to that (I'm still seeing the "setting
> hostname to localhost.localdomain on every bootup though). Can someone
> please explain the intricacies of what's going on? I know that the
> computer gets itself an IP address via DHCP, what's the program on MY
> machine that handles this, and how do I configure it?
>
> I want it to stop changing the bloody name to whatever my ISP feels I
> should be called at the moment. However,... I'd *also* like to know
> what name I WOULD have been assigned, if I want to, heh heh
>
> How do I do this?
>
>
> Thanks for all your help,
>
>
> Schewdent.
>

I had the same problem, using comcast.net cable internet. Someone told me
to go into my network settings, and add a subdomain (I already had it set
to localhost.localdomain). So I changed it to local.localhost.localdomain,
and now it works fine, comes up as local. I guess it's just a quirk of
some ISPs.

Geo

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In comp.os.linux.networking Schewdent <(E-Mail Removed)> suggested:
> On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 23:04:30 +0000, Bit Twister wrote:

>> On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:02:25 GMT, Schewdent wrote:
[..]

>> http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search
>> google_tag_set_hostname in the first box
>> *linux* in Newsgroup, U need 2 use *, pick English

> Er - I really prefer to talk to a human being mate That's what Usenet is
> for. Almost every question here could be answered by a webpage, but I
> really prefer the social interaction. Chill

Please keep in mind that this isn't a corporate help-desk, none is
payed here to answer your questions and the amount of regulars
knowledge able enough to answer most questions is rather limited.

Those people spend parts of their free time to help out others
for one or another reason, many just to give back what they
received from the community. That's how Linux works.

Searching the archives for a solution is always a good idea and
can with a little luck, offer you one in a second. If there are
still problems, feel free to come back and give us enough real
data (commands/error messages) what you have done and I'm sure
there are people willing share their deep knowledge with you.

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On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:51:21 -0500 George wrote:

> I had the same problem, using comcast.net cable internet. Someone told me
> to go into my network settings, and add a subdomain (I already had it set
> to localhost.localdomain). So I changed it to local.localhost.localdomain,
> and now it works fine, comes up as local. I guess it's just a quirk of
> some ISPs.
>
> Geo

No it is not. It has a sense why the hostname is dynamicall changed when
the poor admin did set it to localhost.

Alexander


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Alexander Dalloz <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news(E-Mail Removed):

> On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:51:21 -0500 George wrote:
>
>> I had the same problem, using comcast.net cable internet. Someone
>> told me to go into my network settings, and add a subdomain (I
>> already had it set to localhost.localdomain). So I changed it to
>> local.localhost.localdomain, and now it works fine, comes up as
>> local. I guess it's just a quirk of some ISPs.
>>
>> Geo
>
> No it is not. It has a sense why the hostname is dynamicall changed
> when the poor admin did set it to localhost.
>
> Alexander
>
>

I'm so glad that you're so thoroughly and perfectly knowledgable about
every single American ISP that you can pontificate like this.

Geo

On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 11:24:43 -0500 George wrote:

> I'm so glad that you're so thoroughly and perfectly knowledgable about
> every single American ISP that you can pontificate like this.
>
> Geo

Got your irony. Though it is a network scripts function of at least Redhat
/ Fedora and nothing the ISP does.

Alexander


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