On December 18, 2016 9:32:25 AM GMT+01:00, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: >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.
I think dhcpcd and co cache the results given in /var.... somewhere. They also can log into /var/log/messages -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
