[clug] hostname

Adrian Blake adrian.blake at ieee.org
Tue Feb 9 10:03:20 UTC 2021


David,
I have a fixed IP address. I have been using the pi-hole for about 1 year
and only recently did the hostname change.

Adrian

On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 11:55 AM David C <cottrill.david at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Adrian, there is a few things:
> a) Hostname in your pihole might be cached from the first time it
> connected (ever). Have to research that.
> b) Did you set hostname with `hostnamectl set-hostname [name]? Because
> systemd filled a hole, you have to fill systemd.
> c) You can set dhcp client options in something like /etc/dhcp/blah.conf
>
> I was leaving this on the assumption that someone else would know the
> exact answer. Now I'm heading for the certainty that if I'm wrong someone
> will correct me.
>
> David no
>
> On Tue, 9 Feb 2021, 8:41 pm Adrian Blake via linux, <linux at lists.samba.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I have asked before:  My Ubuntu laptop has acquired recently an unusual
>> hostname. Not what I have set. I see this because I have a pi-hole and I
>> look at the entries.
>> Why is this? I am concerned because I may have a virus or some other
>> malicious software running in background .
>> Adrian
>>
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Australia
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