Fedora install weirdness
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@Dashrender said in Fedora install weirdness:
OK we've beat the hostname issue to death.
What about the storage name? Where did that get it's name from?
I thought that we had moved onto that a bit ago.
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@Dashrender said in Fedora install weirdness:
OK we've beat the hostname issue to death.
What about the storage name? Where did that get it's name from?
It always creates that using the hostname that was assigned at install time. I always set that, and don't have reverse lookup records, so I don't see that happen. Makes total sense that it would tho.
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@travisdh1 said in Fedora install weirdness:
@Dashrender said in Fedora install weirdness:
OK we've beat the hostname issue to death.
What about the storage name? Where did that get it's name from?
It always creates that using the hostname that was assigned at install time. I always set that, and don't have reverse lookup records, so I don't see that happen. Makes total sense that it would tho.
OK - well, then this makes no sense what so ever - as I mentioned, I set no hostname, so fine, it pulled one form reverse DNS, but as you can see in my examples at the top.. the two DO NOT MATCH. What's in the hostname is totally different from whats in the storage name.
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The names don't match up at all. But the storage name is a the same as a computer on my network, is in DNS, but not on that IP in DNS, nor reverse DNS.
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@Dashrender said in Fedora install weirdness:
@travisdh1 said in Fedora install weirdness:
@Dashrender said in Fedora install weirdness:
OK we've beat the hostname issue to death.
What about the storage name? Where did that get it's name from?
It always creates that using the hostname that was assigned at install time. I always set that, and don't have reverse lookup records, so I don't see that happen. Makes total sense that it would tho.
OK - well, then this makes no sense what so ever - as I mentioned, I set no hostname, so fine, it pulled one form reverse DNS, but as you can see in my examples at the top.. the two DO NOT MATCH. What's in the hostname is totally different from whats in the storage name.
Ah, I missed that. Yeah, that is odd.
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If you left the default hostname (localhost.localdomain) alone, the default storage name will be fedora-root and fedora-home.
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@black3dynamite said in Fedora install weirdness:
If you left the default hostname (localhost.localdomain) alone, the default storage name will be fedora-root and fedora-home.
I would have thought so too - but you can clearly see that's not the case.
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@travisdh1 said in Fedora install weirdness:
@Dashrender said in Fedora install weirdness:
@travisdh1 said in Fedora install weirdness:
@Dashrender said in Fedora install weirdness:
OK we've beat the hostname issue to death.
What about the storage name? Where did that get it's name from?
It always creates that using the hostname that was assigned at install time. I always set that, and don't have reverse lookup records, so I don't see that happen. Makes total sense that it would tho.
OK - well, then this makes no sense what so ever - as I mentioned, I set no hostname, so fine, it pulled one form reverse DNS, but as you can see in my examples at the top.. the two DO NOT MATCH. What's in the hostname is totally different from whats in the storage name.
Ah, I missed that. Yeah, that is odd.
updated my post above yours with the screen shots.
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OK after an offline conversation with JB - Scott's saying we were already talking about my storage name issue makes sense.
It's likely that setup grabbed IP Address A from DHCP, which happened to coincide with an old record from my boss's laptop in Reverse DNS. Fedora installer looked that name up, used it to make the storage name.
Then after install, Fedora used the newer ID to get a DHCP address, my DHCP server saw it as a new device and gave it a different IP. and the rest is history.
Thanks everyone for helping me understand what happened.
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Ah, if DHCP was giving different IP addresses. that makes sense.
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@scottalanmiller said in Fedora install weirdness:
Ah, if DHCP was giving different IP addresses. that makes sense.
It has to. Because the installer uses the MAC address. But Fedora uses the Machine ID for DHCP identification.
