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network-manager package

  1. Bug #8980
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 8980

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Lars Noodén (larsnooden) wrote : hostname still returns localhost even in hardy heron

I expected hostname to return the value for eth0, which in this instance is currently 192.168.101.100. A related bug is that lo is not up.

$ hostname -i
127.0.1.1
$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1b:63:92:3e:85
          inet addr:192.168.101.100 Bcast:192.168.101.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21b:63ff:fe92:3e85/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:198577 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:125590 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:287827105 (274.4 MB) TX bytes:9484088 (9.0 MB)
          Interrupt:18
$
$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"
$ dpkg -l hostname | grep ii
ii hostname 2.94 utility to set/show the host name or domain name
lars@macbook:~$