On Wed 21 Feb 2018 at 09:03:41 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 01:48:32PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > On 20/02/18 05:32, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > You appear to be concerned that your hostname contains secret information, > > > and that having your hostname "leaked" to the rest of the world will be > > > an issue for you? > > > > > > If that's the case, try not putting secret information into your > > > hostname. E.g. naming your machine my_mothers_maiden_name_is_johnson > > > might be a bad idea. > > > > I haven't been following the thread, but to be fair hostnames could > > sometimes contain info that you might not want to spread around > > unnecessarily. Eg "pg1-linode-tx" might be a useful hostname for your > > first Texas DB VM, but you might not want to reveal that much info to > > the whole world. > > Then don't choose that hostname. That's the entire point I'm trying > to make. In Debian, you get to choose what your hostname is. If you > want it to be as meaningless as possible, use something like pwgen to > generate a random string for you. > > Why this is even being *discussed* is beyond me. I still don't understand > the OP's rants. Maybe it's a Windows-user thing?
It may simply be that the OP has read RFC 8117. Section 5 could cause consternation to john doe! https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/03/msg01075.html (And to D Libes, author of RFC 1178.) Cheers, David.