Comment 3 for bug 760884

I'm quite sure that there were no other computers on the network with that name. As a matter of fact, it was my home network and all of my other computers have different names. And they were all switched off at the time.

I tried about twenty different names, quite random ones in the end. Only characters and figures, no weird symbols or spaces. Nothing was accepted.

Until I used a random name with a dot in it, which was thankfully accepted (yay!) so I could go on. I was able to change this nonsensical name afterwards in /etc/hosts without a hitch....

I hope you can fix this before Natty final ships. A bit late in the day, but there's definitely something wrong in Ubiquity's computer name checker.