I think this another thing new to Tiger: when I initiate a PPP connection, my hostname changes, to things like:
fliax7-a170.dialup.optusnet.com.au
Now, this doesn’t have too many issues, except when I try to initiate a connection with what the hostname used to be, such as a local VNC connection to the other user’s desktop.
The solution is to do the following: edit /etc/hostconfig, and replace:
HOSTNAME=-AUTOMATIC-
with
HOSTNAME=the_hostname
