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

Mon Feb 18 19:38:35 PST 2008

I should add too that I don't know of a DHCP server which will
give a different address to a system renewing its lease, nor can
I think of a particularly compelling reason for one to do so.

-Phil/CERisE

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 07:29:51PM -0800, cerise at armory.com wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 07:07:39PM -0800, Jeff Younker wrote:
> > 1) IP addresses change.
> 
> Irrelevant, so long as /etc/hostid changes with it.  It marks a
> unique host.
>  
> > 2) when using dhcp all machines end up using 127.0.0.1 as the
> >     basis for their hostid.
> 
> That's not true.  All machines that have their hostname resolve
> to 127.0.0.1 use 127.0.0.1 as the basis for their hostid.
> 
> Using the -c switch with dhcpcd could solve this problem pretty
> easily.
> 
> -Phil/CERisE