On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 2:26 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've grep-ped the whole of /etc, no mention of "Knoppix" there. > > I've also looked in /var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-enp6s8.conf to see what > hostname NetworkManager sends to dhclient. No trace of "Knoppix" in there > either. > > What else could it be creating or overriding a Local Address with one called > "Knoppix", rather than what was set at installation time?
I connected my laptop to a friend's wifi network using dhcp and my laptop was renamed "Tessa's iPhone". I didn't investigate further (except that I set up a static address) but I suspect that some dhcp servers push out a hostname along with an ip address without checking the requester's mac address.
