Mike
To give you another example, I use Gentoo Linux on a netbook that uses
Network Manager to start the wireless card on bootup. On some wireless
networks, the DHCP server also sends a hostname which, in my case, would
actually stop Xorg and Gnome from running, simply because the new hostname
cou
Mike
For any network service, you probably should make sure that the machine name
can be resolved to an IP address, and an IP address back to a name as the
reverse lookup is frequently used to detect IP spoofing.
So, for example, if client PC A on 192.168.1.1 is connecting to the server
PC B on 1
On 7/5/11 9:42 AM, Benjie Gillam wrote:
My guess is that his iPad used your IP address beforehand and
requested 'johnrs-ipad' be it's hostname during the DHCP request a
while back. When your MacBook did a DHCP request, the server recycled
the old iPad record without properly cleaning it first.
My guess is that his iPad used your IP address beforehand and requested
'johnrs-ipad' be it's hostname during the DHCP request a while back. When
your MacBook did a DHCP request, the server recycled the old iPad record
without properly cleaning it first.
Benjie.
On 5 July 2011 15:28, Mike Burrows
Hello folks.
I am connecting to the LAN at work from my macbook. When I open a
terminal i get this message:
Last login: Tue Jul 5 09:19:23 on ttys000
johnrs-ipad:~ testermike$
We do have a John R at work and he does have an ipad. However I can't
understand why its reporting my macbook as his
