Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [O/T] netstat security puzzle
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2016 09:24:25
Message-Id: 1785377.ljgmfY9PJF@dell_xps
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [O/T] netstat security puzzle by "Poison BL."
1 On Friday 16 Dec 2016 19:19:11 Poison BL. wrote:
2 > On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 7:14 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > > I am looking at a Mint 18 installation and noticed when running netstat
4 > > that
5 > > all tcp connections are showing not the PC name, but "Knoppix":<port>.
6 > >
7 > > What might be the cause of this? The installation was performed using a
8 > > Mint
9 > > LiveCD iso.
10 > > --
11 > > Regards,
12 > > Mick
13 >
14 > My first check would be /etc/hosts for an entry there. That, or lazily
15 > grepping all of /etc for Knoppix.
16 >
17 > It is strange that it's not using either the hostname as given during
18 > setup, or an auto-generated potentially unique one, wherever it's pulling
19 > that from.
20
21 Yes, I the same thoughts but due to time pressure I only grep-ped the whole of
22 /etc. I didn't find anything. I'll have another look when I get access to
23 this machine again.
24
25 --
26 Regards,
27 Mick

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