Name of computer

[Paul Howarth]

Wojciech Komornicki wrote:
> I get my IP address from DHCP and so, according to the default
> installation of FC4, my computer is named localhost.localdomain.  Can I
> give my computer a different name and still get its IP address from
> DHCP?

If your DHCP server includes information about DNS servers, and the DNS 
servers it specifies can reverse-resolve your IP address to a hostname 
(i.e. you have set up reverse DNS properly), then your hostname will be 
set to the name found by reverse DNS.

Paul.