My brother's computer is the same way and his computer runs Win98. He's on Telus' consumer adsl package....
Just got off the phone with Telus Support. This is apparently something they have been in the process of changing for a month. The reason that was given was that their OCA server was getting huge amounts of traffic and is having issues keeping up with the demand. The new method of hostname is suppose to ease that burden and allow their equipment to better interact with each other. Personally, I believe them when they say that their OCA server is having huge volumes of traffic, but I also believe it is a way that they can prevent or help abate people from using their home systems (or those on the non-server packages) as servers by not being able to ping their hostname and obtaining their current IP address. Just my thoughts. I hope this helps. -- Neil Bower Registered User # 323470 ( http://counter.li.org) Fingerprint: F3C6 F20C 7B0F 0BFD BA3D 1EB4 2F93 DE6C 4CF6 DA95 On Tuesday 21 October 2003 14:46, Nick W wrote: >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 > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >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). > >Nick W ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >Registered Linux User #324288 (http://counter.li.org) >MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Yahoo: foolish_gambit >ICQ: 303276221
