On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:27:50 +0100
Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org> wrote:
 
> > Is there some setting which preserves enough information to make
> > localhost:0.0 legal so laptops can be functional even if partially
> > incorrectly bound to local net?
> 
> like, not asking for hostname over DHCP?
> 
> /etc/dhclient.conf:
> 
> supersede host-name "your-real-hostname";
> 
> 
> regards,
> 
> --=20
> -- Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@{NetBSD,Xtrmntr,silcnet}.org>   --
>

works a treat! many thanks.

So amnesiac is just not a good state to be in (tm) to start things like
X11, but its easy to make your host have a name, and persist across
dhcp.

cheers
	-george