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 ?

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