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Author: Antoine
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] new freedesktop "standard": /etc/machine-id
On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 10:38:57AM -0600, golinux@??? wrote:
> On 2019-03-09 07:21, Alessandro Selli wrote:
> > On 09/03/19 at 14:04, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote:
> > >
> > > > my id is 0x007f0101
> > > >
> > > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > my id is 0x007f0101
> > > >
> > > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > my id is 0x007f0101
> > > >
> > > [...]
> > > 007f0101
>
> 007f0101
>
>

It looks to me as if this is indeed the computer's IP address... just the
loopback one, slightly mangled:

- 127.0.0.1 => 0.127.1.0 i.e. 007f0100
or
- 127.0.1.1 => 0.127.1.1 i.e. 007f0101

I tried changing the IPaddress on my loopback interface, but the returned
hostid didn't change.

What do you think?

- Antoine

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