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After nuking my old install, I am in need of a hostname. Top comment chooses it.

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[–] Gobbel2000@feddit.de 348 points 9 months ago (10 children)

lemmy.made.me.look.at.this.each.time.i.open.a.terminal

Hostnames can be up to 64 characters long in Linux.

[–] moonleay@feddit.de 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

This seems to be the most popular one, though I can't use it in the way its written here, because it will fuck up DNS. I'll substitute the dots with dashes and then it should work.

[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Post a proof screnshot please

[–] moonleay@feddit.de 56 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] someonesmall@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I appreciate you sticking to your word, but this is just stupid. Petition to change it to something sane

[–] SheeEttin@programming.dev 0 points 9 months ago

I'm pretty sure you can use dots in record data. I know you can use them in zone names.

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