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  1. Bug #1452202
  2. Comment #64

Comment 64 for bug 1452202

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Peter Wu (lekensteyn) wrote :

There are two problems with the patch:
1. netcfg/hostname=ubuntu (or any value containing "ubuntu") remains unfixed.
2. Certain DHCP hostnames can result in corrupting the hosts file.

For example, with DHCP name "node" and "netcfg/hostname=newname" we have this command:
/bin/sed -i "s/$CURRENT_HOSTNAME/$NETCFG_HOSTNAME/" /etc/hosts
which would change "ff02::1 ip6-allnodes" into "ff02::1 ip6-allnewnames".

(I actually ran into the first issue, trying to set hostname "ubuntu" which failed and resulted in a hostname that consists of an IP address...)