hostname/IP on beacon?

[debbie fligor <fligor@uiuc.edu>]

I've noticed this on both the macs (OS 10.3.4) I've compiled the new 
beacon on -- it's showing the hostname/IP pair that the computer was 
initially configured with, not the one currently in use via dhcp.  I 
don't have a non-Mac to try the new beacon on (yet, I'll be 
recompiling on a sun to replace my older version soon) so I don't 
know if this is a mac problem or a general problem.

I tried hard-coding the IP instead of using DHCP, and it didn't make 
any difference.

If I ask my mac what it thinks it's name is I get :
608 faranth> hostname
faranth.ci.uiuc.edu
610 faranth>

and ifconfig shows 192.17.25.224


which are correct, but the beacon startup notice and the web page show:

faranth.cso.uiuc.edu 130.126.113.223

there isn't old data in an /etc/hosts file, I checked for that.

this is the "0.9.58 RC1 - 2" software version, I didn't find the -3 
on the web page.

I see where I can comment out the Net::Domain call and use a hostname call:

#my  $host  = hostname;         # Use Sys::Hostname to get good hostname
my $host = Net::Domain::hostfqdn() || die "Unable to get fqdn: $!\n";

but when I tried switching the comments it complained that it 
couldn't use  "hostname" because strict was on.

I'm not that good a programmer to just know how to fix it, and I 
don't have time to spend on this for very long, so I thought I'd see 
if anyone else has ideas/answers.

thanks!

-- 

-debbie
Debbie Fligor, n9dn       Network Engineer, CITES, Univ. of Il
email: fligor@uiuc.edu          <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/fligor>
"Every keystroke can be monitored. And the computers never forget."