Re: hostname

Jared Earle <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.macosx.admin
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Check your router/DNS server.

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:59 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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