[rhinstaller/anaconda/pulls/164 master] Generate random hostnames

sgallagher installerbot-noreply at redhat.com
Thu Jul 2 11:45:28 UTC 2015


These are already part of the deployment guides/docs, but they have proven time and time again to be a major sticking point for users (who rarely read docs until they've already made a mistake). Not all problems can be solved by technical solutions, but this one easily can.

It's worth noting that ours is the only platform I'm aware of that chooses such an odd default:
 * Mac and Ubuntu both require the user to select a machine name explicitly during the install process. (Tested with OSX 10.10 and Ubuntu 14.04.2)
 * Windows generates a random name of the form WIN-XXXXXXXXX. (Tested with Windows Server 2012r2)

(Note: I only tested these cases when DHCP was not configured to hand out names; it may be that they behave differently in those circumstances, but that's not the concern in this PR).
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