On Friday 31 Oct 2003 H:45 pm, HaywireMac wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:28:47 +0000
>
> Poogle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> > Perhaps I didn't make myself clear, instead of the login screen saying
> >
> > "Welcome to localhost" as normal and a terminal prompt showing
> > "[EMAIL PROTECTED] $" it shows as "Welcome to public1-derb2-......."
> > and "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" which are coming from my ISP.
> > All I want is for  the normal "localhost" to be displayed at boot and
> > in terminals.
>
> Well, I see in there you've got:
> > DEVICE=eth0
> > BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> > NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> > ONBOOT=yes
> > MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes
> > NEEDHOSTNAME=no
>
> could it be that your ISP's DHCP server is setting your hostname?! I've
> never heard of that before, but they might be running some kind of
> WINS/Netbios proto that is changing your hostname.
>
> I don't know enough about that network-scripts setup to advise what to
> change, except maybe try putting "yes" for NEEDHOSTNAME, but I would
> seriously recommend putting something between your ISP and your wkstn,
> like a router firewall that would negotiate the connection for you.
>
> How are you connecting, is it a DSL/PPPoE connection?

NIC -> Cable company's set top box, it works O.K in 9.1 so I must have setup 
something differently in 9.2, damned if I can see it though.
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