On Thursday 29 August 2019 12:55:10 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 11:41:55AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Its all hosts file based, no dhcp involved this side of the router. > > If the desired fqdn is not in the /etc/hosts file, which is > > identical on all machines (so is the /etc/resolv.conf file, which > > assigns the router > > [...] > > None of this has anything to do with the topic at hand, which is how > you wish Debian to assign the interface names to the interfaces that > it discovers at boot time. Apparently you don't want to use ANY of > the various schemes that have been in use for the last decade or so, > and yet you can't actually describe what you DO want to happen.
I just did, in a step by step description, Greg. How you choose to understand it is up to you. > Hostnames, IP addresses, DNS nameserver addresses, domain names, etc. > are all separate from this. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>