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. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk
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