On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote: > On 01/26/2016 09:47 AM, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: >> >> I still think that, for the default workstation use case, configuring >> a hostname as a mandatory part of installation is counterproductive. >> Would it make sense to improve support for hostname-less workstations? >> NetworkManager could take hostname=="localhost" or >> "localhost.localdomain" to mean that DDNS should be turned off and the >> client ID should be "MAC<digits>" instead of "localhost".Would it make >> sense to teach NetworkManager to skip sending the client ID (or send >> some compatibility value) instead of "localhost"? >> > It's not mandatory for installation. If your IP address resolves, it uses > whatever hostname is returned. If not, it stays at localhost. You can > manually modify that of course, but you aren't required to. This works > perfectly for me deploying computers with freeipa. I set up the DHCP > server, the installer picks up the right name and freeipa configures > correctly.
This is rather awkward for laptops in particular. It gets a bit confusing when my laptop's idea of what it's called varies depending on where I am. --Andy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
