Re: hostname?
On 10/4/2019 9:00 PM, ghe wrote:
> My hostname is kinda wrong, and I can't figure out why.
>
> I'm working on a configuration for a Cisco PIX firewall, creating the
> config file on a host called sbox. The hostname should be sbox, but it
> claims to be pix. pix is the hostname of the firewall.
>
> '/etc/hostname' says sbox, but 'hostname' says pix. And in my dir, the
> CLI prompt says pix. There's obviously something going on with the pix
> config, but I can't find it.
>
> There's no 'pix' in /etc/hosts, the hostname file in /etc says sbox.
> rebooting doesn't help, there's no pix in .bashrc.
>
> There's one in the firewall config file (to assign the firewall's
> hostname), but that's way down in /home/ghe/scripts/... and it's never
> been run anywhere but ssh'd into a laptop in the next room running
> minicom attached to the PIX through the 232 console port. The laptop's
> hostname is as it should be, and I've used this method to install config
> files into Cisco routers and Cisco and Juniper firewalls for years with
> no problems
>
> The word 'PIX' is in sbox' interfaces file, but it's in a comment and
> it's uppercase -- the problem hostname is lower case.
>
> Logging in to sbox via SSH from other computers gets a pix hostname.
>
> I've tried grep'ing for pix in many fires and dirs, but I think it's
> finding 'pixel' because it returns eleventy million finds.
>
> Does anyone on this list have any idea what's going on?
>
What is the hostname given out by the dhcp server?
It looks to me like it is server related and not client related.
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John Doe
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