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only changes prompt and shell's environment variable
Unfortunately, changing the host name in this way does not allow you to ssh or telnet into your machine using that name. it only changes what the prompt says is the host name, i.e. if you set host = "mycomputer" then turn on sharing, and try to ping or telnet from another computer, it won't find it. And only "localhost" is honored if you try to browse on console any web pages that you have on your computer. (In fact, I'm not sure if the proposed solutions I've seen on this site's archives would have their hand-tailored hostnames honored by the network without registering with their parent domain).
The correct way to change your hostname
All of the posts I've seen actually slightly miss the correct way to change your hostname on OS X.
The correct way to change your hostname
Posts like this needs to be highlighted so it stands out from all the conflicting / outdated info regarding common troubleshooting issues like this one. |
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