On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:49 AM, Jason Heeris <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27 February 2012 16:19, Bob Proulx <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> If you are generating random hostnames then does it actually matter >> what name the current host uses? Would "localhost" be as good as any >> randomly generated one? > > The randomness is needed to avoid name collisions when multiple > devices are running. They offer SSH/SFTP and Samba services over the > network, and need to be available by hostname rather than IP address > (via Avahi and whatever Samba uses, NetBIOS I think).
Aren't your users going to hate the random names? Will they know to use "<hostname>.local" for ssh/sftp? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=SxqAvMoazU20pk82HDT0cTQweWSO+nKN77C6poB7=5...@mail.gmail.com
