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OSX host name problem?

  • 11-11-2005 9:46am
    #1
    element05
    Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I have a new iBook G4 (about a month old). Everything is peachy, and I love it to bits, but there's something a bit funny about its hostname.

    The computer name (as set in system preferences) looks normal (it's still on the default <firstname>-<surname>s-ibook-g4 that the OSX initial setup set it to). However, the actual *hostname* of the laptop seems to be messed up - as in, if I turn on the built in web server and go to 127.0.0.1, the address comes up as http://unknown00045c6182f3.bearcave/ (bearcave is my workgroup name).

    I have a wireless network, and my wireless router is also picking up the weird name as the hostname of the iBook. I had a look in /etc/hosts, but everything in there looks normal.

    Anyone know why this might be? It doesn't seem to be breaking anything, but I just can't work it out. :confused:


    Cheers,

    John


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  • #2
    Hugh_C
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,852 ✭✭✭Hugh_C


    element05 wrote:
    Hi,

    ...if I turn on the built in web server and go to 127.0.0.1, the address comes up as http://unknown00045c6182f3.bearcave/ (bearcave is my workgroup name).


    Hi John, what's a workgroup and how do you administer it?

    My /etc/hosts looks like:

    # Host Database
    #
    # localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
    # when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
    ##
    127.0.0.1 localhost
    255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
    ::1 localhost

    but I seem to remember that on another machine (not here in work) that I was hosting a domain on, I had to edit the hosts file to include that domain in the loopback. I'm sure there are hints about this in
    http://www.macosxhints.com


  • #3
    element05
    Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭element05


    Sorry, I must have been smoking crack, I meant domain name, not workgroup (I come from a Windows environment, this is my first Mac ;) ).

    My hosts file looks exactly like yours. However, I have noticed that the hex number after the word "unknown" is the mac address of the built in AirPort card. I did a full text search of the entire hard drive (using the text search built into TextWrangler), and the only reference I could find to the full string was a few lines in a file called asl.log (I don't know where this file is, Finder doesn't find it) which go like:

    [Time 2005.11.09 20:02:48 UTC] [Facility daemon] [Sender configd] [PID 31] [Message setting hostname to "unknown0014517a55ca.bearcave"] [Level 5] [UID -2] [GID -2] [Host john-mellericks-ibook-g4]
    [Time 2005.11.09 22:10:25 UTC] [Facility daemon] [Sender configd] [PID 63] [Message setting hostname to "unknown0014517a55ca.bearcave"] [Level 5] [UID -2] [GID -2] [Host john-mellericks-ibook-g4]

    (The hex value here is the real one - the one in my first post was just made up, as I didn't have the actual value to hand)

    Any thoughts?


  • #4
    element05
    Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭element05


    I did three things to my setup here; I changed the computer name to iBear, I ran MacJanitor (http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/macjanitor.html), and I changed the domain name of my wireless network to "homenet" (previously, the domain name and the SSID of the network had been the same - and I had also had a different wireless network set up at one point, using different hardware, but with the same SSID - don't know if that's important, but I'll just mention it), and after a reboot, the hostname was showing up properly (ibear.homenet).

    So I have no idea what was causing it, or what the specific fix was, but that worked for me :)


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