Computer named changed by itself

[Paul Howarth]

Roberto Alfonso wrote:
> I rebooted my FC4 yesterday and found out that my computer name changed 
> from what it was before "quorpus" to "dhcp-3985-428" so when I log in have

Somebody has probably set up reverse DNS for your network, so that a 
lookup of the IP address you've been issued using DHCP returns 
"dhcp-3985-428". As far as the network is concerned, that *is* your 
hostname.

Paul.