Re: Belkin router hostnames problem

From: Bit Twister (BitTwister_at_mouse-potato.com)
Date: 07/08/05 

Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 06:42:41 -0500

On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:35:02 +0200, John Stolz wrote:
> Belkin's usually excellent technical support seems to have failed me this
> time (although all credit to them for having a toll-free number and
> calling me back twice on a **LINUX** issue).
>
> This adsl router has a dhcp server which hands out ip addresses
> appropriatly. However, linux machines acquire bizarre hostnames
> comprising the string 'unknown' followed by the mac address of the network
> card in the client.
>
> Any suggestions?

my node name from comcast is
c-24-1-202-185.hsd1.tx.comcast.net
I just ignore it and have my node set it's own name.

Depending on dhcp client, you can have a script to modify any files
needing to know the ip address and you set your own node name.

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