[Bug 315444] Re: jaunty: strips domain from hostname even if using DHCP

[Thomas Hood]

This bug is three years old and was never addressed.

Is it true to describe this report as a complaint that Ubuntu doesn't
support giving the machine a system hostname that is a fully qualified
domain name?

If so, then please describe in more detail what goes wrong when a name
like 'foo.bar.baz' is issued by the DHCP server.  What is the resulting
system hostname?

** Changed in: netcfg (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  jaunty: strips domain from hostname even if using DHCP

Status in “netcfg” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: netcfg

  Current jaunty seems to strip the domain part from hostname even when
  using DHCP. Looked at netcfg-common.c, and it indicates that this
  should not happen, and it used to work ok ~month ago in jaunty. We
  rely on FQDN hostnames, so I might need to hack around this somehow..

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