Where is the computer network name set and stored ?

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:20:32 -0400
Darryl L. Pierce wrote:

> Someone correct me, but I believe the name specified in the initscripts
> is what's proposed to a DHCP server only and would be used by _other_
> systems who use that hostname to find the box. It has no bearing on how
> the Fedora instance identifies itself. IOW, it submits "farkle" to HDCP
> so someone can ping farkle.mydomain.com, but the system itself could be
> named "hungadunga".

True, but I was just assuming that sane administrators would prefer
the name to be the same everywhere and might want to change it
consistently it all the places it appears :-).