On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek > <zbys...@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. >> >> (*) The suffix could include dashes for more possibilities, but they should >> not be adjacent or at the end. > > I'm in favor of defaulting to "Fedora-[0-9a-z-]{8}" myself. However, > I'm concerned that people don't realize that we can, in fact, set the > hostname during installation. People usually don't because Anaconda > doesn't currently make that mandatory or otherwise note that it's > possible during the initial panel of spokes (hint: it's the networking > spoke), and so the default of "localhost" continues on without anyone > being the wiser. > >
If the hostname is non-constant, can we also arrange that, by default, this hostname is never sent over the network? In particular, I think that DHCP requests should *not* include this hostname. We're already starting to randomize MAC addresses -- there's no reason to give a persistent per-installation identifier to every network. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
