-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greg Meyer wrote: > On Monday 03 March 2003 12:17 pm, Frederic Lepied wrote: > > Why is this possible in prior releases then? I could always set the host name > and still obtain a dhcp address. I am making a big issue about this because > a lot of people on samll/home networks that don't have dns are going to be > upset that they cannot set the hostname of their machine. The other OS > allows this and previous versions of Mandrake did too. Since zeroconf is a > alternative to UPnP, isn't the feature set supposed to be comparable?
Well, that only really worked because people added entries to /etc/hosts .... > > Also, what about drakconnect breaking localhost resolution for GNOME? I think Fred may have fixed it in the latest initscripts, you may want to test. Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+Y5XarJK6UGDSBKcRApXPAJ9vRm4H+JooZQWjyw1GFkcEQ1pLiACgq4jY tWX51umIAHAc7t4gwMtt6Tc= =WlDa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
