Problem with DHCP, /etc/hosts and GNOME

[William Hooper]

Satish Balay said:

>
> Ah.. I interptered it as - an option to dhcp-clinet (not server) to
> ignore what dhcp server says - and use the provided value as the
> hostname. Perhpas there should be some other option for this
> functionality? (RFE)
>
> I don't like hostname changing (when you move laptop between networks)
> - this changes xauth which messes up everything else..

A quick browse through the networking scripts suggests that the hostname
will only change if it is "localhost".  I haven't looked too hard though. 
I know that I don't have a problem with my laptop, which I set the
hostname on during install (but that was with RHL 9 and an upgrade to
FC1).  It may be more of a case of the DHCP servers I'm using not trying
to change the hostname, though.


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William Hooper