Re: Persisting a one-off hostname change
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:49 AM, Jason Heeris <jason.heeris@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 27 February 2012 16:19, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
>>
>> If you are generating random hostnames then does it actually matter
>> what name the current host uses? Would "localhost" be as good as any
>> randomly generated one?
>
> The randomness is needed to avoid name collisions when multiple
> devices are running. They offer SSH/SFTP and Samba services over the
> network, and need to be available by hostname rather than IP address
> (via Avahi and whatever Samba uses, NetBIOS I think).
Aren't your users going to hate the random names?
Will they know to use "<hostname>.local" for ssh/sftp?
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