On Sunday 18 Dec 2016 08:09:06 J. Roeleveld wrote: > 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
hostname returns the correct name of the PC, as set in /etc/hosts. I'll investigate Tom H's hint that the local router's dhcp server may be the culrpit. I seem to recall this PC had booted with a Knoppix CD some days ago, perhaps this was cached by the router. -- Regards, Mick
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