From 50d8ba5bf5cd89ecd21a755dc7857fe832ecf4cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petr Bokoc Date: Nov 13 2022 07:08:31 +0000 Subject: Add fallback hostname --- diff --git a/modules/release-notes/pages/sysadmin/Networking.adoc b/modules/release-notes/pages/sysadmin/Networking.adoc index 17657f1..450f792 100644 --- a/modules/release-notes/pages/sysadmin/Networking.adoc +++ b/modules/release-notes/pages/sysadmin/Networking.adoc @@ -20,4 +20,8 @@ Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) software suite was updated to version 9.18. The `bind-dyndb-ldap` dynamic LDAP back-end was upgraded to version 11.10 to support support BIND 9.18. The back-end will be built together with the `bind` package. ==== -You can see the full list of changes in the https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/v9_18_4/notes.html#notes-for-bind-9-18-0[upstream release notes]. \ No newline at end of file +You can see the full list of changes in the https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/v9_18_4/notes.html#notes-for-bind-9-18-0[upstream release notes]. + +== Fallback hostname set to `localhost` on server-based editions + +For the Cloud, CoreOS, IoT, and Server editions of Fedora, the fallback hostname has been changed to `localhost`. The fallback hostname is the hostname that is set if the hostname cannot be determined by any other mechanism (statically set, DHCP, or reverse DNS). This change was made in order to conform to the common expectation that a hostname of `localhost` on a system means the hostname is "unset".