persistent DISPLAY variable

[Jack Tanner]

>> I wonder if the queried hosts are doing some sort of reverse DNS 
>> lookup, and finding that your newhostname doesn't match the DNS records.
 > I can ping my PC via new hostname from the queried hosts that I can't
 > Xwin to. I can't ping oldhostname from anywhere on our network.

Don't ping. Instead, at your local machine, do

$ hostname

Is this what it should be, i.e., newhostname?

$ ipconfig

Does this return the IP address that it should?

$ nslookup newhostname

Does this match the IP address allocated to your machine?

$ nslookup current-ip-address

Does this match newhostname?

Repeat for oldhostname as appropriate.


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