[luau] dhcp-146-41

[W. Wayne Liauh]

You seem to have totally ignored the fact that it is my right that is 
being breached, my computer that is being invaded.  

Of course, I have to 'warn" you that I am now speaking as a politician.


Dustin Cross wrote:

>Wayne,
>
>Road Runner has always assigned hostnames to all of their DHCP clients and
>so does every other ISP that uses DHCP that I know of.  This is standard
>practice and is how they track the systems on their network.  You can
>override this functionality, but it sounds like your problem is with a
>Redhat configuration.  The hostname of your system should have no effect on
>its operation.  The name localhost is ment to be assigned to 127.0.0.1 and
>not your external IP address.  When your system communicates with localhost
>it is talking to 127.0.0.1 and not the IP address Road Runner assigned,
>unless you have changed something or Redhat's default config is wrong.  You
>are making a big deal out of nothing.
>
>
>Dusty
>  
>