Re: Setting default hostname to localhost

[Donald J . Maddox]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 09:23:13PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote:
> /etc/default/rc.conf to change the default hostname to "localhost".  If
> the user configures a hostname, or DHCP provides one, it will be
> overridden, of course, so should not impact any configuration but one
> where the hostname is left undefined.

A cursory glance at /sbin/dhclient-script seems to indicate that
DHCP will NOT override the hostname unless it is an empty string.


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