The hostname belongs to the computer and not the adapters. The IP adress for each adapter should be different though. If you do a DNS lookup you will get the IP adress of the external adapter because that is the publicly accessable end of the machine. The internal machines won't look up the IP adress from DNS because Oscar puts the names and adresses of all the cluster machines in /etc/hosts. That file is where the machine checks first when you refer to another computer by name instead of by IP adress. If you put external machines in there it can save time talking to DNS (which can be slow or down) but you have to put machines with local adresses (192.168.*.* for instance) there because those are not registered with DNS because they are not accessable from the outside.
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