Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1956 mails)

[Pete Connolly <pete.connolly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
> On Friday 03 August 2007, Pete Connolly wrote:
>   
>> Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
>>     
>>> On my Laptop which runs 10.0 I found that instead of name of my net
>>> (constant.net) the word reached shows up.
>>>       

>>> I had something like this a long time ago,  and if my rusty memory
>>> serves me correctly it was down to a problem with my networking setup,
>>> in particular the DNS settings.  Do you have the option to 'change
>>> hostname using DHCP' ticked in your network setup?
>>>       
> Hi Pete,
> Must be close to the solution.
> No idea where to change the hostname using DHCP. Could not fine anything 
> useful.
> But found out that if I would like to setup a DHCP server the initialization 
> stops with the information:
> ERROR
> <Cannot determine the hostname of .>
>
> Looking at this information I would say that somewhere in my setup a dot has 
> creeped up. A dot but where?
>   

Hi Constant


>From memory (I'm working on a Vista machine at the moment, I'm afraid,
sorry!) Start YAST->Network Card->Choose 'Traditional
Method....'->Edit->Next->Hostname and Name Server.  Check if the tick
box 'change hostname via DHCP' is ticked.  If so, untick it and restart
your system.

I think the DHCP server you have is returning invalid data for the
hostname, but your system is accepting it anyway and returning to a
default ('reached').

Give it a go and let us know.

Cheers

Pete
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