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jcarpenter2
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2017 4:24 pm Post subject: What is hostname?

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/etc/conf.d/hostname

Code:

# Set to the hostname of this machine
hostname="localhost"

hostname

Code:

$ hostname --fqdn
foldingmachine

why is hostname different?

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szatox
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Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2017 6:51 pm Post subject:

Check your /etc/hosts file, it's quite likely to be the culprit. The second candidate is your router, they often integrate DHCP with DNS and can even assign a name to your machine according to their own configs.

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