It's probably in your wireless router. Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 13, 2011, at 4:59 PM, Chris Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > Where is the hostname stored? I have a Macbook Pro with 10.7 installed on it, > first repartitioned and reformatted. It previously had Fedora 16 on it, with > a hostname of f16.local. > > Yet despite repartitioning and reformatting and clean installing 10.7, the > command prompt in terminal is: > f16:~ chris$ > > When I type hostname, the reply is: > f16 > > When I go to System Preferences>Sharing the "Computer Name" is mbp4. With > file sharing enabled, other computers see mbp4 as the bonjour name. ssh to > f16.local does not resolve, but mbp4.local does resolve. If I change the > Computer Name, it is not changed in Terminal's command prompt until the > computer is restarted, and now it appears to be in parity with the hostname > found elsewhere. > > But initially it picked up the hostname from a completely different operating > system? Despite disk partitioning and reformatting? > > Chris Murphy > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-admin mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
