hostname conflict

[Hacker Scot]

Ah, turns out I had created a "brain" entry in /etc/hosts long ago.  
Thanks to Derek C. and Scott A.  for pointing me in the direction of  
DNS.

./s


On May 2, 2008, at 8:36 PM, Hacker Scot wrote:
> In my Sharing preferences, both the computer name and the Edit...  
> subnet name are "fleegle" (fleegle.local). But if I type "hostname"  
> into a shell, I get "brain," which was the machine's hostname long  
> ago. Apache responds on http://brain but not on http://fleegle .   
> The machine shows up via Back to my Mac as "fleegle."
>
> Any idea how this hostname conflict could have happened or how I can  
> fix it?
>
> Thanks,
> Scot
>