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Re: [LUG] What the .....?

 

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, David Bell wrote:

> Just installing Lenny on my laptop and have been startled, nay appalled, to
> find that "ubuntu" was displayed as the suggested default Hostname.
>
> Has the Debian site been infiltrated by this fly by night, plagiarist, upstart
> organisation?

Is it possible you've played with ubuntu in the past, or have some local 
DNS with it in it?

I only ask, as I installed Lenny on my laptop recently and it did a 
reverse DNS lookup on the IP address it got via DHCP to use as the default 
hostname..

Gordon

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