[clug] hostname

[Brenton Ross]

Adrian,

>From a terminal session what do you get from the following commands ?

hostnamectl

and 

cat /etc/hosts

These should report the host name of your machine, plus other stuff.

It may be the Pi is seeing entries from your router, which may be
something else.

Brenton

On Tue, 2021-02-09 at 11:40 +0200, Adrian Blake via linux 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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