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I'll fix cs.  It really shouldn't accept the loopback address as the
local one.
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After setting up venti, cs stopped recognising my sysname.
It was because the loopback interface got up first on boot,
and because cs looks first by ip address.

Now, I had two alternative ways to deal with it:
1) Poke around in /sys/src/cmd/ndb/cs.c and edit it to look
by the ethernet address when by ip it did not succeed.=20
I did it.
2) Write the ip I get from the dhcp server into /lib/ndb/local.
I did it too.

Now it works. Basically, 2) would've sufficed.
OK, now for the question: Is 2) the "standard" way of dealing
with this? What to do when the ip returned by dhcp
is random?

Tiit
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