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|    Carlos E.R. to Woozy Song    |
|    Re: Suse Leap PC has new hostname "ubunt    |
|    20 May 23 13:49:02    |
      From: robin_listas@es.invalid              On 2023-05-20 06:25, Woozy Song wrote:       > Yesterday, I installed Leap 15.4 on a PC, it got host name "Unknown". I       > boot it today, and it is "ubuntu" WTF?       > I am wondering was it given a hostname from the ISP modem via DHCP?       > I have a whole bunch of systems with various distros. Only 4 can be       > plugged in at once, but would have used Ubuntu recently. And the modem       > has a pool of IP addresses that get recycled.              Your modem is giving it a name via dhcp.              Local name would be in "/etc/hostname".              --       Cheers, Carlos.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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