Re: [opensuse] only a very small nuisance

Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
On Friday 03 August 2007, Pete Connolly wrote:

Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:

On my Laptop which runs 10.0 I found that instead of name of my net
(constant.net) the word reached shows up.


I had something like this a long time ago, and if my rusty memory
serves me correctly it was down to a problem with my networking setup,
in particular the DNS settings. Do you have the option to 'change
hostname using DHCP' ticked in your network setup?

Hi Pete,
Must be close to the solution.
No idea where to change the hostname using DHCP. Could not fine anything
useful.
But found out that if I would like to setup a DHCP server the initialization
stops with the information:
ERROR
<Cannot determine the hostname of .>

Looking at this information I would say that somewhere in my setup a dot has
creeped up. A dot but where?


Hi Constant


From memory (I'm working on a Vista machine at the moment, I'm afraid,
sorry!) Start YAST->Network Card->Choose 'Traditional
Method....'->Edit->Next->Hostname and Name Server. Check if the tick
box 'change hostname via DHCP' is ticked. If so, untick it and restart
your system.

I think the DHCP server you have is returning invalid data for the
hostname, but your system is accepting it anyway and returning to a
default ('reached').

Give it a go and let us know.

Cheers

Pete
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