On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 06:40:49AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > My guess, without reading specs, is that the right thing to do is to > change the in-kernel dhcp client to construct fqdn and use it.
The in-kernel dhcp client is minimalistic and only extracts enough data to mount /, and it should not deal with administrative decisions. In userland, dhcpcd hooks should set the full name by default, if I read /libexec/dhcpcd-hooks/30-hostname correctly, not sure what goes wrong here for John. Martin