On December 18, 2016 8:26:40 AM GMT+01:00, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Friday 16 Dec 2016 19:19:11 Poison BL. wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 7:14 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> >wrote: >> > I am looking at a Mint 18 installation and noticed when running >netstat >> > that >> > all tcp connections are showing not the PC name, but >"Knoppix":<port>. >> > >> > What might be the cause of this? The installation was performed >using a >> > Mint >> > LiveCD iso. >> > -- >> > Regards, >> > Mick >> >> My first check would be /etc/hosts for an entry there. That, or >lazily >> grepping all of /etc for Knoppix. >> >> It is strange that it's not using either the hostname as given during >> setup, or an auto-generated potentially unique one, wherever it's >pulling >> that from. > >I've grep-ped the whole of /etc, no mention of "Knoppix" there. > >I've also looked in /var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-enp6s8.conf to see >what >hostname NetworkManager sends to dhclient. No trace of "Knoppix" in >there >either. > >What else could it be creating or overriding a Local Address with one >called >"Knoppix", rather than what was set at installation time?
There is a hostname option in the kernel config. Maybe that is used somewhere? # zgrep -i knoppix /proc/config.gz What does ' hostname ' return? -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
