Disappearing Livebox

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magill
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Joined: 27 Apr 2012

Last night my livebox completely wiped itself, all lua, cron, rf settings etc and took on a host name of "knoxbox"

Anybody have any idea how that can happen?

John

brett
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Providence, United States
Joined: 9 Jan 2010
Wiping itself ?

If the livebox wiped the .INI file then your hostname won't be found so it will default back to "knoxbox" see /etc/init.d/network

HOSTNAME="`iniget $INI network hostname knoxbox`"

I've never heard of a box wiping itself before without some user interaction initiating it.

Brett

magill
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Joined: 27 Apr 2012
I didn't know that the

I didn't know that the default was "knoxbox" I thought it had been hacked! I couldn't find the box on the network and then found it's IP had changed from my static set up.

No idea what happened. Luckily I have backup files.

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