From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020222 Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.get a CIPE tunnel between 2 boxes 2.add hostname to /etc/hosts corresponding with tunnel endpoint 3.service network restart Actual Results: hostname was changed to name obtained from /etc/hosts when bringing up CIPE tunnel with corresponding IP addr. also happens post-boot Expected Results: hostname shouldnt change Additional info: I fixed it with: (pseudo-patch) # don't set hostname on ppp/slip connections if [ "$2" = "boot" -a \ need_hostname -a \ "${DEVICE}" != lo -a \ "${DEVICETYPE}" != "ppp" -a \ + "${DEVICETYPE}" != "cipcb" -a \ "${DEVICETYPE}" != "slip" ]; then echo "doing set_hostname ${DEVICE}"
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