@DenverD: You’re making it far more complicated than it is. A file gets rewritten to a previous state every time I reboot. That’s the issue. Nothing to do with connecting to network services.
@please_try_again: Set to bridge already. I get my IP from our corporate dhcp.
Clarification: It isn’t the local hostname that is being change. The IP for another host is being reverted to a previous entry every time the VM is rebooted. I even took a snapshot of the running VM after the change was made and booting that snapshot still reverted.