Peter;172224 Wrote: > > 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. > > Regards, > Peter
Right, that provides an explanation that I can understand. It was probably a decision by Draytek when they updated the firmware, though it's odd that their support guy didn't seem to know anything about this. It still seems strange that the host name has only altered in certain places, my own name is there when I open a Finder window, and is shown as the name in the Sharing preference pane. SI have only found the changed name in Terminal and on the Squeezebox - the change in Squeezebox did not surprise me though the change in Terminal did. Does the Squeezebox get the name Vigor12 direct from the router? Or from checking what name the computer is broadcasting itself as? -- danco ------------------------------------------------------------------------ danco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=210 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31849 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
