Re: Using dhcp on a home cable connection
Brendan O'Connor wrote:
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> Looking further, I found out that my cable isp does not offer persistent hostnames. I checked what the hostname is under windows, and it's 'NAME.mn.rr.comDEST' which doesn't seem to mean anything (nor work with linux...) Any suggestions at all would be very helpful! Thanks!
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Well NAME should be the hostname linux wants.The rest is just part ofthe
subdomain_name .Try giving that.It may be possbile(altough not likely)
that no hostname is required in which case just comment that line with
hostname in /etc/network/interfaces.
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