Re: dhcp6 and fqdn support (for dns)

[Jiri Popelka <jpopelka redhat com>]

On 09/16/2012 09:55 PM, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> BTW, from the info in the dhcp-options man-page, I believe that 
> NetworkManager should be doing "send fqdn.fqdn" instead of "send 
> host-name" for IPv4.  This should be with a plain name ... not a 
> qualified name.  See the man-page.
The story behind this is
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694758#c20 (NetworkManager)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697877 (initscripts)

> OK, bug or feature?

Well, me and the original reporter of those bugs had suggested to "send 
fqdn.fqdn" when $(hostname) was FQDN and "send host-name" otherwise, but 
Bill Nottingham (initscripts) decided to always "send host-name". So I 
thought it would be better for NM to stay consistent with initscripts.
Read those BZs and if you think the behavior is wrong you could try to 
re-open them.

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Jiri