On 11.11.2016 19:25, Japheth Cleaver wrote: > On 11/11/2016 9:08 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: >> I still believe we should stick to a generic hostname by default, >> (though I'd rather use "localhost" than "localhost.localdomain" in >> order to drop the redhatism that "localdomain" is), and make the IPA >> client-side enrollment code automatically update to a more "unique" >> hostname if the hostname is found to be unset or be "localhost". >> >> I am also pretty sure that DHCP clients should suppress sending local >> hostname information if the local hostname is unset or "localhost". > > Given the text of RFC6761 [https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6761#section-6.3], > something like "fedora-XXXXXX.localhost" would also be an option, if we > absolutely needed a domain component. ("localdomain." seems like a > not-invisible number of root TLD lookups at > http://stats.dns.icann.org/hedgehog/). But a simple "localhost" seems a > sufficient default over this localdomain. redhatism. I support his. We should use <whatever>.localhost so RFC6761 applies and Fedora boxes do not pollute DNS infrastructure with nonsensical requests nobody can answer. Petr^2 Spacek > > > On 11/11/2016 6:50 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 12:13:48PM -0000, fredrik@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>> I like Fedora-XXXXXXXX for default hostname. If I don't care to set a >>> hostname it would be an ok hostname for my machine. I would however like if >>> the hostname setting would be more prominent in the installer. Possibly >>> generating based on my name along the lines of: fredriks-laptop.rambris.lan >> Making the choice it more prominent is probably not necessary, if we >> provide a nice default. Although it probably wouldn't hurt. The hostname >> could be displayed in the summary or maybe the user creation dialogue >> ('Create user "user1@Fedora-123345"'?). > > Anaconda having a distinct panel explicitly for setting the hostname, along > with some knobs for setting the default, depending, for example, on if we've > already gotten an IP during PXE, would be a good thing IMO. > > Prompts and options would help with some kickstart situations, where one would > like a chance to permanently specify it during install regardless of user > accounts or install-time networking, and before we reboot for the first time. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
