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by **Dan Nordqui** » Mon, 05 Nov 2001 16:54:10

Hi there... I just installed RedHat 7.2 today and have had pretty good
luck. However, one kind of spooky thing caught my attention: sometime
this afternoon, my system began greeting me with "Welcome to
myplaceontheweb.com" instead of "Welcome to localhost". I haven't
done a thing to the network settings, and I only even learned of the
"hostname" command in looking for a solution to this problem (if it is
a problem)...

So how did it get switched? How do I switch it back?

Very strange...

-Dan

by **David Efflan** » Tue, 06 Nov 2001 01:58:19

Quote:> Hi there... I just installed RedHat 7.2 today and have had pretty good
> luck. However, one kind of spooky thing caught my attention: sometime
> this afternoon, my system began greeting me with "Welcome to
> myplaceontheweb.com" instead of "Welcome to localhost". I haven't
> done a thing to the network settings, and I only even learned of the
> "hostname" command in looking for a solution to this problem (if it is
> a problem)...

> So how did it get switched? How do I switch it back?

Whatever you are using to get an internet IP (pppd, dhcp) likely has a
setting about whether you want it to change your hostname to the name for
that IP, or not. So set it to not to, and change it back (with the
hostname command and in one of the scripts under /etc/sysconfig.

If it changes on the fly when you are running X as localhost and then it
changes to myplaceontheweb.com, it can cause problems for X programs,
because they may not have permission (xhost setting) to connect from that
other host.

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by **Dan Nordquis** » Tue, 06 Nov 2001 02:12:52

> > my system began greeting me with "Welcome to
> > myplaceontheweb.com" instead of "Welcome to localhost". I haven't
> > done a thing to the network settings...

> Whatever you are using to get an internet IP (pppd, dhcp) likely has a
> setting about whether you want it to change your hostname to the name for
> that IP, or not. So set it to not to, and change it back (with the
> hostname command and in one of the scripts under /etc/sysconfig.

Very interesting. It's actually an external DSL hookup, so I had no idea my
IP resolved to that domain. Strange, but somehow logical. :)

Quote:> If it changes on the fly when you are running X as localhost and then it
> changes to myplaceontheweb.com, it can cause problems for X programs,
> because they may not have permission (xhost setting) to connect from that
> other host.

Oh I know all about that: I tried to change it back to "localhost" and ended
up crashing X entirely. No fun.

Thanks for helping me out!

-Dan

Very Computer

very strange problem - localhost -> myplaceontheweb.com??

very strange problem - localhost -> myplaceontheweb.com??

very strange problem - localhost -> myplaceontheweb.com??

very strange problem - localhost -> myplaceontheweb.com??