[NDBounce]

When I visited my friend at her college, they required all computers to be registered with their IT dept in order to access the net. So my friend registered under her name. I recently noticed an interesting phenomenon. When I log into the terminal, it used to read something to the effect of:

ndbounce$

for my command prompt. Now it reads:

friendsname-5a:~ndbounce$
-2.loca
So when she registered the computer, apparently it made some settings changes somewhere. I looked in my sharing prefs, and everything looks normal in terms of my computer name, etc (my computer name is ndbounce's computer, and the hostname is ndbounces-computer-2.local). Does anyone know what may have been messed with and how to fix it so I don't have her name in some hidden registry on my computer.

I am running X.4.5 (but had X.4.4 when this was done).

The machine is a 15" Powerbook G4, 1.5ghz, 1GB Ram

Thank you for any help.

O
B unce!

[whgoodman]

The new name is probably a result of the DHCP process on the college WAN/LAN. Your system will assume the DNS name of the DHCP'd address if it has a reverse entry in their DNS server. The nodename should revert back to your system name if you remove yourself from the LAN.

[Steve]

The same thing happens to me (iBook) when i connect to the wireless network in the classrooms here.

I asked IT about it and they gave me the same answer whgoodman just explained. There's nothing to worry about.