Re: RFC: Change the default hostname for Fedora 26+

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On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 03:25:58PM -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> If the hostname is non-constant, can we also arrange that, by default,
> this hostname is never sent over the network?  In particular, I think
> that DHCP requests should *not* include this hostname.  We're already
> starting to randomize MAC addresses -- there's no reason to give a
> persistent per-installation identifier to every network.

There's two different cases that I'm not sure how to resolve elegantly.
On a home network or on a business network, having the name available
is highly desirable. On a public network, just the opposite.

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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader
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