On Monday 03 March 2003 12:17 pm, Frederic Lepied wrote: > First that's the normal behaviour to be able to set the hostname only > in static IP mode. You can't choose by yourself a name and have it > known by the other hosts on the network if the IP is given by DHCP. > > The only hack to achieve something like choosing a hostname that will > be valid on your network, is to use zeroconf by setting a hostname in > .local.
Why is this possible in prior releases then? I could always set the host name and still obtain a dhcp address. I am making a big issue about this because a lot of people on samll/home networks that don't have dns are going to be upset that they cannot set the hostname of their machine. The other OS allows this and previous versions of Mandrake did too. Since zeroconf is a alternative to UPnP, isn't the feature set supposed to be comparable? Also, what about drakconnect breaking localhost resolution for GNOME? -- Greg
