[baylisa] Re: wtf: hostid gives '0' as a hostid

Sat Feb 16 21:37:17 PST 2008

It seems in Linux hostid is pretty useless, as you'll almost always get a
value of
127.0.0.1 in network-endian hexadecimal.

007f 0100

f7 00 00 01

127 . 0 . 0 . 1

having VMs won't help much either, depending on the guest OS you're running,
some will behave better than others based how they use their networking or
pull data for hostid.

pseudo-unique identifiers can be had from the SMBIOS/DMI data (UUID value).
not sure which tools one would use to gather this though.

-- Rob
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