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| author | Yu Watanabe <watanabe.yu+github@gmail.com> | 2018-08-02 16:32:42 +0900 |
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| committer | Yu Watanabe <watanabe.yu+github@gmail.com> | 2018-08-06 10:48:12 +0900 |
| commit | 31ee39732705b74c43b2352132e3af205a876c99 (patch) | |
| tree | 49fc2636e5d953bb6c910c2aee88d18c047fd6be /man/systemd.network.xml | |
| parent | a8494759b4f14af5337391727ba295ab708b92f9 (diff) | |
| download | systemd-31ee39732705b74c43b2352132e3af205a876c99.tar.gz | |
man: mention that Hostname= for DHCP must be a valid DNS domain name
Diffstat (limited to 'man/systemd.network.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd.network.xml | 21 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.network.xml b/man/systemd.network.xml index 8a80b0cf4f..c3dd8d07a9 100644 --- a/man/systemd.network.xml +++ b/man/systemd.network.xml @@ -1194,25 +1194,28 @@ <varlistentry> <term><varname>SendHostname=</varname></term> <listitem> - <para>When true (the default), the machine's hostname will - be sent to the DHCP server.</para> + <para>When true (the default), the machine's hostname will be sent to the DHCP server. + Note that the machine's hostname must consist only of 7-bit ASCII lower-case characters and + no spaces or dots, and be formatted as a valid DNS domain name. Otherwise, the hostname is not + send even if this is set to true.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><varname>UseHostname=</varname></term> <listitem> <para>When true (the default), the hostname received from - the DHCP server will be set as the transient hostname of the system + the DHCP server will be set as the transient hostname of the system. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> - <term><varname>Hostname=</varname></term> - <listitem> - <para>Use this value for the hostname which is sent to the - DHCP server, instead of machine's hostname.</para> - </listitem> - </varlistentry> + <term><varname>Hostname=</varname></term> + <listitem> + <para>Use this value for the hostname which is sent to the DHCP server, instead of machine's hostname. + Note that the specified hostname must consist only of 7-bit ASCII lower-case characters and + no spaces or dots, and be formatted as a valid DNS domain name.</para> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><varname>UseDomains=</varname></term> <listitem> |