I was running Transmission on a virtual machine, but that VM decided to stop working, so I decided it was time to move to something a little more isolated, and easier to rebuild if/when the time comes.

Doing some research, aka, poking around the internet using The Google, I found a decent guide, which I modified a bit, …

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So, it looks like in Ubuntu 16.04 and above, changing the hostname is no longer using the hostname command and editing the /etc/hosts file.

New (at least to me) command hostnamectl is now used.

This command recognizes three different classes of hostname (straight from the man page):

static - The traditional hostname. …

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