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Re: proper way to change ip and hostname



On Monday, 25.07.2005 at 23:19 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:

> Matthew Lenz wrote:
> 
> >rather than grep xarging /etc for occurances of the ip and hostname
> >is there a proper "debian way" of changing them?
> 
> Editing /etc/hosts ?

That won't change the machine's IP.

The Correct Way to change a machine IP configuration and hostname is by
doing:

dpkg-reconfigure etherconf

(or apt-get install etherconf, if it's not installed)

This will ask you various questions about your setup and IP config, and
write results to all the pertinent files under /etc, such as /etc/hosts,
/etc/network/interfaces etc.

Cheers,

Dave.
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