We had a discussion with sabdfl at the cloud sprint this week, and in fact, he is 100% behind this change.
See this branch: lp:~kirkland/maas/1287224 revno: 2652 fixes bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1287224 committer: Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkl...@gmail.com> branch nick: maas timestamp: Tue 2014-08-05 20:35:26 +0200 message: Enable MAAS to produce friendly, pronounceable hostnames, LP: #1287224 Ship two culled word lists -- 1,315 adjectives, and 977 nouns. This gives us a possible 1,284,755 combinations of adjective-noun, which is more than enough to cover any Class B, /12 network (255.240.0.0) and its 1,048,576 unique IP addresses. You might notice that this model is quite similar to Ubuntu's friendly release naming scheme, such as "Warty Warthog". These word lists are shipped and installed in /etc/maas/adjectives.txt and /etc/maas/nouns.txt, such that they are easily customized, edited, or overwritten by any MAAS administrator. The modified code updates the generate_hostname() hostname function to try and generate an 'adjective-noun' hostname, but if any exception occurs (such as a wordlist read exception), it will fall back to the legacy 5-random-non-ambiguous-character hostname. A test is included to ensure that all randomly generated hostnames fit the model of "word hyphen word". However, note that it's probably not able to open and read the word lists, since they're installed on disk. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to maas in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1287224 Title: MAAS random generated hostnames are not pronounceable To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/1287224/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
