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On Friday 21 November 2008 00:15:05 Gordon Henderson wrote: > 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.. I don't think it could be that as it was a clean install after a cold boot on a re-partitioned and formatted wiped disk and I have never used "ubuntu" as a hostname. -- W. Devon ------------- A GNU/Linux user -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html