[daip] AIPS on laptop

[N.M.Nagar]

Hi AIPS  (Patrick? et al.),
Greetings from the Netherlands (new postdoc, new machine,
new AIPS installation...ouch).
A quick question regarding AIPS on a laptop which is not 
addressed in the AIPS manager FAQ.

How does one handle (w.r.t AIPS, i.e. HOSTS.LIST etc) the
constant change of laptop name? 
I installed AIPS on my laptop while on the net with hostname  
visitor3 at rri.res.in  (and used HOST=visitor3 during the 
installation).
Now I'm either off the net (with name  localhost.localdomain)
or on the network here (with name  xxxx.astro.rug.nl) and
so expectedly I can't get AIPS to work. Is there a quick 
solution? Will I have to pretend that each new hostname
is a completely new AIPS host instead of just a name change.
(apologies if this is linux related instead of AIPS related).
Would appreciate your input, 
regards,
Neil.