On 11/12/2016 12:03 AM, Glen Turner wrote:
> RFC 2606[1] reserves several TLDs that may never be registered for
> public usage. Out of those, going with
> Fedora-XXXXXXXX.localhost
> seems like the best bet.
The *reason* localhost is a reserved name is to discourage its use in
DNS names. Your proposal is the opposite to that intended by RFC2606,
something which the casual reader of your message may have missed.
This misses something I neglected to point out in the original message. Sorry
about that.
When we enroll with FreeIPA or Active Directory through realmd, one side-effect
of this enrollment is that the domain part of the local hostname is changed to
match that of the domain into which they are enrolled.
So if we set fedora-abcdefgh.localhost as the default domain and then enrolled
with FreeIPA domain "fedoraproject.org", then the machine's full hostname
would
become
fedora-abcdefgh.fedoraproject.org
So my proposal really *was* to indicate that the default hostname should only be
used when not part of a formal domain.