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Re: persistent DISPLAY variable
I wonder if the queried hosts are doing some sort of reverse DNS
lookup, and finding that your newhostname doesn't match the DNS records.
> I can ping my PC via new hostname from the queried hosts that I can't
> Xwin to. I can't ping oldhostname from anywhere on our network.
Don't ping. Instead, at your local machine, do
$ hostname
Is this what it should be, i.e., newhostname?
$ ipconfig
Does this return the IP address that it should?
$ nslookup newhostname
Does this match the IP address allocated to your machine?
$ nslookup current-ip-address
Does this match newhostname?
Repeat for oldhostname as appropriate.
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