I thought about posting a comment asking if anyone in this forum has
ever used RedHat 8.0 on a machine with RoadRunner without an external
firewall, but decided against it, as doing this would have been too
tasteless, even to someone as gross as I.
I had a dhcp server installed at home a few years ago. It had been
working continuously for over one year and half until I decided to
change the kernel. This is a great testimonial to the stability of
Linux. Although this was based on a beta version of dhcp, I believe the
architecture still stays pretty much the same.
One of the key features of dhcp, as far as I was concerned, is that the
ip address is temporary which will expire upon disconnection or be
renewed after a pre-set period of time (with a new ip), depending on the
server configuration.
I believe many cable modem users will not be thrilled when they realize
that their computers, instead of having a changing ip, are actually
assigned a permanent hostname. Of course, our local dhcp experts are
telling me that having a permanent hostname don't make no difference,
and are implicitly accusing me of spreading FUD. You make your own call.
Kevin Goad wrote:
-----Original Message-----
It's not only Redhat that changes the Hostname. I used to have that
problem when I first installed Mandrake 8.0 until I manually entered my
own hostname. To even the score I recall playing around with snort one
time and sniffing packets from my XP box when I came across a name
something like this, mycomputername(somenumbers).hawaii.rr.com. It
concerned me for a while that my computers name was exposed to the
outside, that Roadrunner knew it and used it to identify me, but then I
figured with two firewalls I shouldn't worry too much.
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