My kingdom for a permanent machine name !!!

[Tom Mitchell]

On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 9:01 AM gene heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
>
> On 9/2/22 02:27, Karl Auer wrote:
> > On Fri, 2022-09-02 at 00:05 -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> >> The board is changing its own name. Sudo hostname newname only
> >> sticks till the network is recycled,
....
> Its been munching along on that project for about 2 hours now.
>

It is helpful to remember that interfaces have names.
The machine itself does not strictly have a name.
The DHCP server/service can set a multitude of things.

When the first router is also the DHCP server things get simpler to research.