danco wrote:
Peter;171948 Wrote:
I think it's the hostname your Vigor passes to your machine via DHCP.
If
you want to get rid of it you might try specifying an IP address for
your PC manually.
Regards,
Peter
That's the obvious possibility. But the guy at the Vigor support team
hasn't suggested it as a possibility, and says he has never seen it. Of
course, he may be incompetent.
Also, I can't understand why that hostname should be relevant for
purely local use.
It's not that strange if you look at it from the POV of a large company
where the workstations are configured by dhcp. It's not that strange to
be able to update the hostname together with the IP address from a
central location. Especially not if you use dynamic addresses together
with dynamic DNS as I believe some places do. I've seen machines calling
themselves vigorxx after retrieving their ip address from a Draytek router.
My slimserver (on a Linux server) advertises itself as the hostname I
set manually. But then I never use DHCP for servers and only static dhcp
entries for workstations, cams and SB's. Much more convenient for many
reasons.
Regards,
Peter
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