On Tue, 08.11.16 23:14, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl) wrote:
On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 05:25:36PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 04:49:42PM -0500, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > SUSE generates a random name of the format linux-XXXXXX (I'm not sure how
many
> > My proposal is that we should consider changing the default hostname for
Fedora
> > 26 to be either FED-XXXXXXXXXXX or FEDORA-XXXXXXXX. The former allows for a
>
> How about non-yelly Fedora-XXXXXXXXXXX? Since SUSE apparently does
> lower case, that should be fine, right?
Bastian Nocera also filed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1392925,
where he proposes "fedora" as the hostname. I think "fedora" is
better than
"localhost", and a non-constant hostname would be even better.
For interactive installs (like with anaconda) it would be great if we could
ask for the hostname. For non-interactive ones, "Fedora-[0-9a-z-]{8}" seems
like a good option (*). It would give "branding", and solve the freeipa
issues.
It would also be a good default for the interactive case, so that people can
"click through" without having to pick anything.
I'd be careful with this. I'd prefer a more generic default hostname
over a more specific, so that we leak as little information about our
system onto the network as possible.
I mean, using "localhost.localdomain" is already leaky enough, given
that only fedora is using this as default hostname — however, it's
still better than telling everyone "Hay, I am running Fedora!".
Lennart
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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat