Rolf Pedersen wrote:Just for reference, I have hooked the adsl modem, which uses dhcp also, back up, there is no problem with an altered $HOSTNAME and kprinter works immediately when asked to. I did not even re-run drakconnect or change any files. Seems to be how the cable modem/comcast dhcp works. In /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.leases, the stored lease info from comcast includes:
Jim C wrote:
Thought of using the hostname command in a script executed at startup?That was one of my first thoughts and it does the trick in rc.local, with the side-effect of disabling auto-login. I just thought there should be a less-kludgy way of dealing with it. Thanks.
I am now finding that usage of kprinter is affected. Invoking print from a kde app opens the kprinter dialog but selecting a button causes a pause for 3 or 4 minutes before the selection is executed. Same when calling kprinter from the prompt: the dialog opens quickly but any selection takes a long time to commence. bleh. lpr commands or printing from OpenOffice.org seem not affected.
option host-name "x1-6-00-03-47-95-32-57";
option domain-name "comcast.net";
There are no corresponding options for the adsl lease. Google groups has quite a few threads about this cable phenomenon, as a search on '$hostname + $dhcp_hostname' has shown. Maybe Comcast support has an answer. Maybe another wild goose ;p
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