Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:32:31 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Generating a random hostname Message-ID: <4BA1E51F.20304@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B27DFDA@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> References: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB3B27DFDA@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com>
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On 17/03/2010 22:06:30, Peter Steele wrote:
> Is there any facility in FreeBSD for generating a random hostname? We
> have a template with a fixed hostname that has to be changed after
> the template is closed. It would be useful to have a hostname
> generated randomly.
perl -le '@a=(a..z,0..9); print map {$a[rand @a]} (1..8)'
That gives you 2,821,109,907,456 different possibilities so you should
be able to use it for a while without too much fear of duplicates.
Cheers,
Matthew
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