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| author | Francesco Giudici <fgiudici@redhat.com> | 2017-03-07 10:27:58 +0100 |
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| committer | Francesco Giudici <fgiudici@redhat.com> | 2017-03-24 15:18:09 +0100 |
| commit | 70c768901b66cd14188c4def5470cd16b91c40ae (patch) | |
| tree | e41fae7c721bbea71576d93d1eb149e2231f57d6 | |
| parent | 76b2e9542fd64d226f98c71972749babc5dd7391 (diff) | |
| download | NetworkManager-70c768901b66cd14188c4def5470cd16b91c40ae.tar.gz | |
man: add description for the 'hostname' config option in the main sectionfg/keep_externally_set_hostname-rh1422610
| -rw-r--r-- | man/NetworkManager.conf.xml | 28 |
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diff --git a/man/NetworkManager.conf.xml b/man/NetworkManager.conf.xml index 251a2a36b6..1230347d83 100644 --- a/man/NetworkManager.conf.xml +++ b/man/NetworkManager.conf.xml @@ -277,6 +277,34 @@ no-auto-default=* </varlistentry> <varlistentry> + <term><varname>hostname-mode</varname></term> + <listitem> + <para> + Set the management mode of the hostname. This parameter will + affect only the transient hostname. If a valid static hostname is set, + NetworkManager will skip the update of the hostname despite the value of + this option. An hostname empty or equal to 'localhost', 'localhost6', + 'localhost.localdomain' or 'localhost6.localdomain' is considered invalid. + </para> + <para><literal>default</literal>: NetworkManager will update the hostname + with the one provided via DHCP on the main connection (the one with a default + route). If not present, the hostname will be updated to the last one set + outside NetworkManager. If it is not valid, NetworkManager will try to recover + the hostname from the reverse lookup of the IP address of the main connection. + If this fails too, the hostname will be set to 'localhost.localdomain'. + </para> + <para><literal>dhcp</literal>: NetworkManager will update the transient hostname + only with information coming from DHCP. No fallback nor reverse lookup will be + performed, but when the dhcp connection providing the hostname is deactivated, + the hostname is reset to the last hostname set outside NetworkManager or + 'localhost' if none valid is there. + </para> + <para><literal>none</literal>: NetworkManager will not manage the transient + hostname and will never set it. + </para> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> + <varlistentry> <term><varname>dns</varname></term> <listitem><para>Set the DNS (<filename>resolv.conf</filename>) processing mode. If the key is unspecified, <literal>default</literal> is used, |