On 10/4/2019 9:00 PM, ghe wrote: > My hostname is kinda wrong, and I can't figure out why. > > I'm working on a configuration for a Cisco PIX firewall, creating the > config file on a host called sbox. The hostname should be sbox, but it > claims to be pix. pix is the hostname of the firewall. > > '/etc/hostname' says sbox, but 'hostname' says pix. And in my dir, the > CLI prompt says pix. There's obviously something going on with the pix > config, but I can't find it. > > There's no 'pix' in /etc/hosts, the hostname file in /etc says sbox. > rebooting doesn't help, there's no pix in .bashrc. > > There's one in the firewall config file (to assign the firewall's > hostname), but that's way down in /home/ghe/scripts/... and it's never > been run anywhere but ssh'd into a laptop in the next room running > minicom attached to the PIX through the 232 console port. The laptop's > hostname is as it should be, and I've used this method to install config > files into Cisco routers and Cisco and Juniper firewalls for years with > no problems > > The word 'PIX' is in sbox' interfaces file, but it's in a comment and > it's uppercase -- the problem hostname is lower case. > > Logging in to sbox via SSH from other computers gets a pix hostname. > > I've tried grep'ing for pix in many fires and dirs, but I think it's > finding 'pixel' because it returns eleventy million finds. > > Does anyone on this list have any idea what's going on? >
What is the hostname given out by the dhcp server? It looks to me like it is server related and not client related. -- John Doe
