asked 2013-12-24 17:58:01 +0200
When asking for a DHCP lease my Jolla seems to send "localhost" as a hostname when asking for a lease. I'd prefer the bluetooth name for it, otherwise the Jolla is a bit difficult to reach when you have a name server that assigns these requested hostnames to addresses assigned by DHCP- I'm wondering what happens at a Jolla party with 30 localhosts ;)
answered 2013-12-24 18:17:48 +0200
I had a similar issue and fixed it with sysctl kernel.hostname=NAME and made it survive reboots by creating the file hostname.conf in /etc/sysctl.d/ with kernel.hostname = NAME in it.
Edit: I saw on the sailfish dev mailing list that creating /etc/hostname will also work. I haven't tried it myself though.
~~I think (but don't quote me on that) that you're also supposed to update /etc/hosts and add the corresponding hostname to the localhost/127.0.0.1 line~~ (apparently not). Also, I wonder if there are any parts of Sailfish expecting the hostname to be 'localhost', that might break if it's changed...
answered 2014-04-13 10:17:36 +0200
Seems to be fixed with version 1.0.5.16 Paarlampi, now the hostname is set to "Jolla". Much better than localhost (I would still prefer it to take the name set in the Bluetooth preferences, though)
answered 2013-12-28 01:40:15 +0200
I can confirm that creating the file "hostname" into "/etc" folder you can assign a true hostname to the Jolla Phone instead of "localhost"
So : nano /etc/hostname Chose a name for your phone, save the changes, and reboot the phone! :-)
Asked: 2013-12-24 17:58:01 +0200
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Last updated: Apr 13 '14
