Re: Why oh why is Gnome eating my panel! (Frustration == MAX)

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

> An idea might be to name my machine at foo.bar.com and writing a script to
> change that line in /etc/hosts to point at the ip of the current default
> interface, whether it is ppp0 or lo.   That won't change the hostname, but
> will that cause problems with programs that only do a getbyhostname() on the
> current ip?
> 
> Do you have better suggestions? Should this be addressed in my
> distribution's ppp setup (debian, unstable).

What you could do is ask the ppp dialer to ask for a specific ip number
before accepting something from the ppp server.  Of course if it changes
then we are back to the old problem.

I have a static ip, so there is no way I can do anything about this.

	sri

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