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[Jason Kohles]

It could also be that you have a name server that always returns an answer
(like if you have FIOS and get redirected to a stupid FIOS web page when
you mistype a domain name instead of getting a NXDOMAIN response), so the
installer believes that every name is taken...

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Jason Kohles
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On 9/12/11 1:18 PM, "Jon LaBadie" <novalugml at jgcomp.com> wrote:

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:44:55PM -0400, Dan Arico wrote:
> 
> Here's the latest odd-ball thing I ran into:
> 
> I installed the latest Ubuntu on a desktop computer. When I came to the
>part 
> where I enter the name of the computer, I got a message that the name
>had 
> already been used on the local network. (It hadn't) I tried another
>half-dozen 
> names and none worked. The only thing that did was the default name the
> installer assigned.
> 
> Dan

Might you, or someone have used the name in the past such that
it is still being cached by dhcp, dns, or ???

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Jon H. LaBadie                  novalugml at jgcomp.com
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