(clug-talk) Host name is wrong

[Nick W]

My friends box (mdk 9.2, 9.1 did this too, as well as Gentoo) is acting 
funny. For some reason its saying his default hostname is dXXX-XXX-XXX-XXX 
where all the X's are his ip address, with dashes instead of dots. His 
console prompt comes up

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instead of the usual

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

It seems to be a problem with his machine thinking its a node on the telus 
network (his isp is telus, DSL). /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts are right. 
Ive seen other machines on telus exhibit the same behaviour. Has this 
happened to anyone else? Anyone know how to fix it? Wine wont work right 
being the way it is.

Oddly, installing Apache fixed it for a few days, but it went back 
(probably when DHCP gave him a new ip).

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