[rhn-users] Best Practice for KS Hostname setting

[Mitch Anderson]

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 13:25 -0400, Andy Ciordia wrote:
> I'm kind of boggled though, if an admin has a floor of machines and and 
> wanted to bring them all up from bare metal does everyone just have 
> 2-200 machines that would be named localhost.localdomain?  It would seem 
> that there is a solution for this.. Of course whenever I think there is 
> a logical solution, its generally highly illogical ;)
> 
I could be wrong, but I though on first boot up, it would set the
hostname to whatever the reverse lookup for the IP it had was.  (this
maybe only with dhcp clients, and I didn't look back through the thread
to see if you were assigning them statically or dynamically...) 

-- 
Mitch