On Thu, 19 May 2011, Toshiaki Shingu wrote: > I installed SL 5.6 beta 2 to three nodes using PXE boot. > ip addresses were obtained by dhcp, so all nodes have diferent ips. > After the successful installation hostid command returns the same value > '007f0100' on all machines. That looks like 127.0.0.1 in a single 32bit word. Is the default network lo0 ? Are you running IPv4 ? If you are IPv6 only and hostid doesn't know about IPv6 could that explain this ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [log in to unmask] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna