Re: CVS import: src/external/bsd/dhcpcd/dist

[David Holland <dholland-sourcechanges%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 07:15:52PM -0700, Erik Fair wrote:
 > > * dhcpcd will now assign a short hostname by default
 > >  To use a FQDN hostname, set this in dhcpcd.conf(5)
 > >  env hostname_fqdn=YES
 > 
 > This is the wrong default, too - hostname should always be FQDN.

This is far from universally agreed upon.

However, ISTM that if dhcpcd is going to set the hostname at all
(which is usually wrong) it should set the hostname the dhcp server
provides and not try to munge it.

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost