On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 08:04, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 20:59, David Talkington wrote: > > > What it does care about is reaching all other hosts on the network, and > > if your assignments are truly dynamic, then you're interfering with > > that. Some other host may next time have the IP which resolves to that > > name. > > Assign a hostname that doesn't appear in DNS if you don't have control > of your network.
Not to drag this out... Just thought I'd finish the thought: As someone else pointed out (and reminded me), X uses your hostname in its authentication/access control mechanisms. If your hostname changes while you're in an X session, it breaks. >From my point of view, automatically changing the hostname of a machine is just a flawed thing to do. It's illogical. Machines have hostnames. Network interfaces have network addresses. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
