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

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 05:44:52PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> David Holland <dholland-sourcechanges%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:
> >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.
> 
> Which hostname should dhcpcd set?

Please, take this to tech-net.

Dave

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