Bug 77457 - hostid replies with same identifier = 7f0100
Summary: hostid replies with same identifier = 7f0100
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: glibc
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-11-07 12:06 UTC by lattier
Modified: 2016-11-24 15:01 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-12-10 12:46:31 UTC

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Description lattier 2002-11-07 12:06:30 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u)

Description of problem:
running hostid command on different stations ; got the same result = 
7f0100

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.run hostid on each station
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  7f0100

Expected Results:  an unique identifier for each station

Additional info:
Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2004-12-10 12:36:40 UTC 
The hostid program just calls the gethostid() function from the C library.
Comment 2 Jakub Jelinek 2004-12-10 12:46:31 UTC 
If /etc/hostid doesn't exist (where you can set hostid to anything you want),
gethostid returns IP address of your hostname.
So it depends on how have you configured your networking.
7f0100 means your hostname's IP address is on lo interface, just don't do that.
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