Odd Terminal Login

[Gregg Bolinger]

The other day Terminal started showing the following when opened:

unknownc82a143b4d69:~ gdboling$

That value is always the same. I went into the Sharing options, per some Googling, and I can see Gregg Bolinger’s iMac as the Computer Name and Gregg-Bolingers-iMac.local as the Local Hostname. Any ideas on how I can fix the Terminal?

[Bear Bibeault]

I have the following in my .bashrc to define the prompt as username, host and folder:

export PS1="\u@\h:\W$ "

Examples:

bear@Kodiak:~$

bear@Kodiak:Development$

[Gregg Bolinger]

I added that and now get:

gdboling@unknownc82a143b4d69:~$

The host is unknown. But I don't know why.

[Bear Bibeault]

Hmmm, never sen that before. Ive had one come up with odd host names when on a corporate network, but nothing that looked like that.

[Gregg Bolinger]

And just now it fixed itself. No clue.

[Bear Bibeault]