On 6/13/22 14:15, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 2:11 PM Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 2:10 PM Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 04:01:03PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote: >>>> openSUSE uses a randomly generated suffix for default hostnames, which >>>> neatly solves this problem. It makes autodiscovery and other things >>>> actually work properly. As it is, having just "fedora" breaks too much >>>> stuff. If it was "fedora-XXXXX", then we could probably keep it. >>> >>> How do they implement this? I wonder if it would make sense to have >>> systemd-hostname understand some character like # (which isn't valid in >>> hostnames) in DEFAULT_HOSTNAME to be replaced with a random number seeded >>> from the machine-id? >>> >> >> YaST generates a linux-XXXX hostname when you install it. The "XXXX" >> string is alphanumeric. >> > > Also, yeah, I think if systemd-hostname could do something like that, > we could do that instead of forcing localhost.
I agree that having a template like linux-XXXX that could be substituted in would be useful and I think we should probably do that for all variants that will stick with the existing fallback hostname today. Maybe in a followup change proposal? I don't think that fixes all concerns that are embedded in this proposal, though. Dusty _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
