Most irritating Leopard problem ever.

I have a custom hostname set on my machine, because “Ian-Eures-Computer” just doesn’t do it for me. Here’s how I have it set up:

My Sharing settings

This is what the hostname actually is right now:

The actual hostname

Clearly, something is not right here. I’ve had it change to several different values, all names of public internet sites, seemingly at random. It makes no sense.

2008/03/17
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I had the same problem, Ian.

Here’s the solution. As root, set hostname on the command line: hostname -s “your hostname”
That fixed my problem!

Cheers!

Raaj
2008/10/03

Yeah, I know how to set it back. It just sucks that I have to do it at all.

Ian
2008/10/08

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