This might be useful.. but POSIX defines a hostid as 32-bit, however the use of 'long' makes it ambiguous.
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/gethostid.html Not sure if anything actually would break if you bumped this, do you know if anything relies on it? or was it mainly intended for humans. Does it default to '0' on other systems as well? -Bryan.
