Re: F37 proposal: Fallback Hostname (System-Wide Change proposal)
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 2:10 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 04:01:03PM -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> openSUSE uses a randomly generated suffix for default hostnames, which
> neatly solves this problem. It makes autodiscovery and other things
> actually work properly. As it is, having just "fedora" breaks too much
> stuff. If it was "fedora-XXXXX", then we could probably keep it.
How do they implement this? I wonder if it would make sense to have
systemd-hostname understand some character like # (which isn't valid in
hostnames) in DEFAULT_HOSTNAME to be replaced with a random number seeded
from the machine-id?
YaST generates a linux-XXXX hostname when you install it. The "XXXX"
string is alphanumeric.
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