"DHCP set the hostname"
Simon Hobson
dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Thu Mar 1 09:29:02 UTC 2007
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.
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