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Force the Hostname on OS X?

Is there anyway to “force” the hostname on OS X?

My box is typically name “wdr1-maclt”, but when I do things, such as login into a hotspot, it gets a name like “40.0.253.in-addr.arpa” assigned.

I have my .bashrc setup to dynamically source files based on the hostname, so this fucks up quite a few things.

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4 Responses to “Force the Hostname on OS X?”

  1. benjamin Garrett Says:
    November 12th, 2005 at 3:59 pm

    I think that it always will respond to .local which is the rendezvous/bonjour host name for the computer.

    Like our blog server is otaku.local on the internal network and furyandfrost.com externally.

  2. Bill Says:
    November 12th, 2005 at 5:28 pm

    Any way to get hostname to return that?

  3. Kevin Says:
    November 12th, 2005 at 8:57 pm

    Edit /etc/hostconfig and change

    HOSTNAME=-AUTOMATIC-

    to

    HOSTNAME=wdr1-maclt

    or whatever you like

  4. Bill Says:
    November 13th, 2005 at 10:14 pm

    Kevin, you rock! Thanks!

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