Raffaele Belardi wrote:
Could it not be that the DHCP server of your DSL provider is assigning
you a name (and an IP address) when you connect? I know that when I
communicated the IP address of my machine to the network administrator
for DNS and DHCP I also had to tell them the host name I wanted for my
machine.
I don't know of books or HOWTO (have you tried www.tldp.org?), but you
can try
$ man dhclient.conf
$ man dhclient
Also, you can read the current DHCP info typing
# cat dhclient-eth0.leases
Can I ask why do you want to force a particular hostname during the
DSL connection?
raffaele
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Can anyone point me to a comprehensive article, book, etc. for Linux
and DHCP. It seems that my computer, when conected to my DSL changes
the host name on my computer. When I disconnect it returns to
normal. Any ideas on how I can change it so that it doesn't do it
? TIA, Maureen
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It's not that I want to force a name but it just started happening and I
have been using this service since Feb. It kinda through me when I saw
it. I though someone had snuck in a back door or something even though
I have a firewall and tripwire, prelude etc.
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