Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4600 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
> On Saturday 31 January 2004 12:24 pm, Ken Schneider wrote:
>
> > Hostnames are not associated with MAC addresses, they are associated with
> > IP addresses. 
>
>
> I seem to recall that one of the predecessors of Comcast (Roadrunner? AT&T 
> Broadband?) actually assigned real, honest-to-goodness hostnames to each 
> customer that were derived from the MAC address.  Maybe that's not the case 
> any more.   But James Knott wrote in a recent post:
>
>
> > Also, while my address may change, my host
> > name won't, as it's based on my mac address.  So any host name look up
> > will return the correct ip.
>
>
> That's what led me to ask the question.
>
> And by the way, is there a utility that will take an IP address as input and 
> return the corresponding hostname as output?  If so, I might be able to use 
> that to determine my MAC-based hostname.

man host