On October 21, 2003 11:34 pm, Neil Bower wrote: > 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 agree, however there must be a way to tell it to be localhost no matter what telus says, right? More details on the problem... Used $hostname -v localhost the prompt changes to its proper [EMAIL PROTECTED] but the titlebar (using x terminal) still shows telus crap. In DrakConnect under mdk9.2 there is a configure hostname option, we changed the name there to localhost. After clicking apply, localhost stays in the textbox, however the hostname is shown up above in the window, and it shows the telus info. > I hope this helps.
