[lug] Hostname, Knoppix, where does it come from?

Bob Collins bcollins at peakpeak.com
Wed Jun 28 17:06:17 MDT 2006


I was having a problem with one of my computers, the / file system 
counldn't be mounted because it was unreadable. I got out my trusty 
Knoppix disk to see if I could repair the file system. Knoppix couldn't 
mount the file system either.

I decided to install a fresh version of SuSE 10.0. Everything went fine 
except that this is what I get when I ping from another computer on my 
local network.

bob at matt:~> ping linux.local
PING linux.local (192.168.0.67) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from Knoppix (192.168.0.67): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.139 ms
64 bytes from Knoppix (192.168.0.67): icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.167 ms

--- linux.local ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.139/0.161/0.171/0.019 ms
bob at matt:~> ping knoppix

PING knoppix.gateway.2wire.net (192.168.0.67) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from Knoppix (192.168.0.67): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.131 ms
64 bytes from Knoppix (192.168.0.67): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.121 ms

--- knoppix.gateway.2wire.net ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.121/0.126/0.131/0.005 ms

I have searched and destroyed every instance of Knoppix on the machine. 
I have also reloaded linux from scratch 3 times. It doesn't seem to 
effect the operation and I can ssh to and from it.

It just bothers me that I can't get rid of the Noppix . Any help would 
be appreciated. I am connected to the internet with a dsl modem/router.

Bob Collins




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