[Dnsmasq-discuss] Option 12 hostname sent to RPi seems incorrect

[wkitty42 at gmail.com]

On 10/27/21 12:15 PM, Geoff Back wrote:
> You said, earlier on:
> 
> /"Nothing on the server is configured to set the same.  The Raspberry Pi client 
> is netbooting, so nothing on the client side could be setting it."/
> 
> That's an invalid configuration.  All Linux-based systems - in fact all POSIX 
> systems - have a hostname, even if it is only "(none)" and pretty much 
> everything will break if there is not something set. The same applies to 
> Windows, if you are netbooting that, and in fact every other OS I have ever 
> encountered that uses IP (which is a lot).

i agree with this... i've never ever installed a linux that did not ask for a 
host name as part of the basic installation process... the host name is always 
asked within a few steps of the install asking for the (first) user name and 
password to use...

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