https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1280529
Petr Spacek pspacek@redhat.com changed:
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--- Comment #2 from Petr Spacek pspacek@redhat.com --- Hello,
first of all, I admit that this is a mess. Main problem is that short names are by definition not unique and thus their use for identification purposes is inherently broken.
One of side-effects of using short names in /etc/hostname are typically various cryptic failures while using Kerberos libraries, which was main motivation why I added recommendation to use FQDN everywhere.
Could you describe you use-case? Why it hurts to display FQDN instead of short name?