[wplug] Laptop and DHCP

[Tim Lesher]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 10:53:45AM -0400, Vanco, Donald wrote:
> If your machine does not get it's hostname via DHCP you can add it as an
> alias to the loopback (localhost) address in /etc/hosts and you'll be fine
> e.g.:
> 127.0.0.1       crashmaster	localhost       localhost.localdomain

I thought about this, but I thought that having the hostname resolve
to localhost would screw up routing.  I'll try it.

> 	...crashmaster is my Abit based system.  If you own an Abit MoBo you
> know exactly why it's so named.....

Been there, done that, wanna see the scars? ;-)

BP6, dual celeron 400s, since consigned to the back of the bedroom
closet.  Very, very touchy about power supplies (fried one CPU, one
DIMM, and a number of fans).


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