Subj : Re: debian installation and hostname memory To : comp.os.linux From : markhobley Date : Tue Nov 23 2004 12:59 am Eric Peterson wrote: > ever, I did not see the default of "debian". The default name given was > "aaaaa" - exactly what I had been naming that old laptop months earlier! Maybe this information is being obtained via netbios at the office. If you have a Windows machine on the office network, or you have some sort of samba system running at the office, or possibly even your office internet router has learned the machine name. (DHCP doesn't fix it, because it is mapped by mac address on the internet router.) I have seen this happen before. My guess is that it's the internet router, so I would look there first. Regards, Mark. -- Mark Hobley 393 Quinton Road West QUINTON Birmingham B32 1QE Reply to: markhobley at hotpop dot do_not_type_this_bit com http://markhobley.yi.org/ .