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

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On 11/10/2016 08:53 AM, Radek Vykydal wrote:
> 
> 
> On 8.11.2016 22:49, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>> For as long as I can recall, Fedora has shipped with a default hostname of
>> "localhost.localdomain"[1]. This default was "safe" for a very long time because
>> we also shipped an /etc/hosts entry that routed this hostname to the loopback
>> device for the benefit of some older system services (like sendmail).
> 
> One aspect worth considering is that localhost.localdomain as installer default
> means that if hostname is not set by user (in UI or kickstart), transient
> hostname of installed system would be automatically set during network
> configuration (by NM) from dhcp or DNS lookup if available (Formerly anaconda
> used to set the installed sytem static hostname to hostname obtained from dhcp
> or DNS in installation environment but based on a bug report we stopped doing it).



Sorry, Radek. I can't parse that. It sounds like you said that Anaconda does
automatically set the hostname and then you say you stopped doing that because
of a bug report. Which one is true for F25/26?


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