Re: hostid

[jghasler@win.bright.net]

Joey Hess writes:
> Accordint to the man page, it's based on IP address.

And this is supposed to make it unique?  Somehow I suspect that mine is not
the only machine with IP 192.168.1.

/home/john hostid -v
Hostid is 8323328 (0x7f0100)

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