On 12/10/2012 12:08 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > On 12/10/2012 07:32 PM, Chris Lumens wrote: >> I guess of those four suggestions, (1) is the one I dislike the least. >> Maybe someone else has better ideas. > > If using an hostname is an must then arguably the correct behaviour here is to never allow the user to manually set on and stick with doing a reverse lookup on the either manually or automatically provided ip address. > > If it returns an hostname then set it if not dont since the users dns setup is broken. I disagree. In a private network the administrator may choose which properties should hold. Using just one box with one network card (and the default HWADDR), I boot several different operating systems, one at a time, and I want the hostname and DHCP_CLIENT_ID and reverse DNS to reflect which operating system (f18b32, etc.) My router also acts as DNS and DHCP server, and it remembers the last requested DHCP_CLIENT_ID, and reverse DNS responds with that name. But I want to set a new hostname for a new installation. Thus I want the installer to ignore reverse DNS, but use a new hostname that I specify. On my network I consider this to be "desired" and not "broken". -- _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
