"DHCP set the hostname"

[Simon Hobson]

Carl Karsten wrote:

>Next Q: what are the implications of multiple machines with the same hostname?
>In other words: does it matter if they are all left set to 
>localhost.localdomain?

A: It depends !


If the client is not providing any service used by another system 
then I would expect there to be little problem. However, most clients 
now do things like file sharing, zeroconf (aka Rendevous), register 
with servers etc and so it does become important - though I assume 
zeroconf must have a mechanism for dealing with this.