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Andrew Bryant - Fri, 2013/05/10 - 13:46
I'm trying to change the hostname of a LAMP Turnkey instance and once it's rebooted, the hostname is '(none)' (and is detected by third-party clients as such).
Any clues why?
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Is there honestly no answer
Is there honestly no answer to this issue?
I have no idea how to do it with Webmin
But if you update /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts with the new name and then restart your networking (or just reboot).
You can do it in Webmin by
You can do it in Webmin by navigating to Network > Network Configuration > Hostname & DNS Client.
Incidentally, it does seem it's a bug in both Webmin and Debian/Linux - my chosen hostname had an underscore in it (illegal character) but the system (either Webmin or the actual kernal) doesn't *stop* you using it. It just fails to apply the hostname, setting it to (none).
Changed the _ to - (as per here) and it's all peachy.
Hmm. I have also just run
Hmm. I have also just run into this. Downloaded the fileserver appliance, installed it ok, set a static IP, changed the hostname and rebooted. /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname both show the new name which is "meterbox" so there should not be any problems with special characters.
My network's DNS is handled by my router running dd-wrt, and has been rebooted.
Yet the tkl box is still known on the network as "fileserver", the out-of-the-box name. Strange.
Did you configure it in DNS?
If so you'll also need to set it there. Or perhaps it's just been cached somewhere?
I have a DNS server running on my netwrok and just configured my desired hostname there and http(s) works as expected.
Sorry for not getting back
Sorry for not getting back earlier on this. Had a chance to look at it yesterday and you were right. I noticed that the VM was showing up in DD-WRT with a hostname of "*". So I copied the MAC address from that client and setup a static lease in DD-WRT for my desired IP & hostname and it all works.
I was initially thrown by the fact that I don't have to do this for Windows-based VMs, they are all pingable by name though it appears that their hostnames don't show up in DD-WRT either. Probably a NetBios thing (if that still exists!).
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