Re: Bug#983835: base-installer: hostname= is ignored if reverse-dns exists

2021-03-02 Thread Raymond Burkholder
On 3/2/21 10:15 AM, Phil Dibowitz wrote: On 3/2/21 1:58 AM, Holger Wansing wrote: Am 2. März 2021 09:52:06 MEZ schrieb Cyril Brulebois : The preseed doc[2] suggests the former is behind the (bare) hostname alias. Try setting the latter? Yes, the installation-guide under

Bug#983835: base-installer: hostname= is ignored if reverse-dns exists

2021-03-02 Thread john doe
On 3/2/2021 6:15 PM, Phil Dibowitz wrote: On 3/2/21 1:58 AM, Holger Wansing wrote: Am 2. März 2021 09:52:06 MEZ schrieb Cyril Brulebois : The preseed doc[2] suggests the former is behind the (bare) hostname alias. Try setting the latter? Yes, the installation-guide under

Bug#983835: base-installer: hostname= is ignored if reverse-dns exists

2021-03-02 Thread Phil Dibowitz
On 3/2/21 1:58 AM, Holger Wansing wrote: Am 2. März 2021 09:52:06 MEZ schrieb Cyril Brulebois : The preseed doc[2] suggests the former is behind the (bare) hostname alias. Try setting the latter? Yes, the installation-guide under https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/apbs04.en.html

Bug#983835: base-installer: hostname= is ignored if reverse-dns exists

2021-03-02 Thread Holger Wansing
Am 2. März 2021 09:52:06 MEZ schrieb Cyril Brulebois : >The preseed doc[2] suggests the former is behind the (bare) hostname >alias. Try setting the latter? Yes, the installation-guide under https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/apbs04.en.html even explicitly states this, indeed: # If

Bug#983835: base-installer: hostname= is ignored if reverse-dns exists

2021-03-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hello Phil, Phil Dibowitz (2021-03-01): > When doing a network-install of a system, if one passes `hostname=foo` > on the kernel commandline, the installer will use that to set the > hostname of the installed system... > > EXCEPT if there's reverse-DNS for the IP address that we happen to have

Bug#983835: base-installer: hostname= is ignored if reverse-dns exists

2021-03-01 Thread Phil Dibowitz
Package: base-installer Severity: normal Tags: d-i Dear Maintainer, When doing a network-install of a system, if one passes `hostname=foo` on the kernel commandline, the installer will use that to set the hostname of the installed system... EXCEPT if there's reverse-DNS for the IP address that