[luau] dhcp-146-41

[W. Wayne Liauh]

Thanks Warren.  What's bothering me is that I have installed dozens of 
Red Hat 8 with DHCP, and the hostname was always localhost.

Warren Togami wrote:

> W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
>
>> I was helping one of my partners installing Red Hat 8.0.  This is a 
>> stand-alone machine with RR cable modem.
>>
>> I noticed that, instead of the usual "localhost", the computer was 
>> designated, out of the blue, a name called "dhcp-146-41".  It was 
>> subsequently concluded that this was the source of all the problems 
>> (including inability to install printer driver, etc.)
>>
>> If I unplug the cable modem and re-install Red Hat, then everything 
>> would initially appear normal (i.e., it will be given the "localhost" 
>> name).  However, as soon as I turn the cable modem back on, the host 
>> name would immediately change to "dhcp-146-41".  And during booting 
>> or re-booting, the system would try to load sendmail and samba 
>> server, both of which were never installed.  There are also other 
>> problems, including the messages of "cannot find server address 
>> dhcp-146-41" and "this system is controlled by another computer), 
>> etc.  If I do the installation with cable modem on, it would 
>> automatically install sendmail and samba, even though I only checked 
>> on the "personal" packages.
>>
>> Anyone cares to take a crack?  I have an identical system at home 
>> which never had any problem.
>>
> That's the default behavior of DHCP in Red Hat 8.0.  It is probably 
> best to override that with a set hostname when you use DHCP.  However, 
> I wasn't aware that changing hostnames like that would cause so many 
> problems for those services.  I need to take a closer look at this on 
> my system.
>
>
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