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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:20:33 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: Setting default hostname to localhost
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010111152033.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010110211942.86697B-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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On 11-Jan-01 Robert Watson wrote:
>  not to (which there may be), I'd like to commit changes to -CURRENT's
>  /etc/default/rc.conf to change the default hostname to "localhost".  If
>  the user configures a hostname, or DHCP provides one, it will be
>  overridden, of course, so should not impact any configuration but one
>  where the hostname is left undefined.
>  
>  Thoughts?

Sounds like a nice idea.

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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