Re: hostname

Scott Lewis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.macosx.admin
Message-ID <[email protected]>
It's probably in your wireless router. 

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On Oct 13, 2011, at 4:59 PM, Chris Murphy <lists-zXQU9YWDTqjmlV4oE/1sFAC/[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
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