[baylisa] Re: wtf: hostid gives '0' as a hostid

[Jeff Younker]

On Feb 18, 2008, at 5:51 PM, cerise at armory.com wrote:
> Only one problem with that -- the result returned by hostid will be  
> only 8
> hex digits long.  If you're going to go by that, then what's so  
> wrong with
> using the IP address the way that hostid does?

1) IP addresses change.

2) when using dhcp all machines end up using 127.0.0.1 as the
     basis for their hostid.

- Jeff Younker - jeff at drinktomi.com -