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man: document that static/transient hostnames may be 64 chars at max

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Lennart Poettering 2016-08-19 11:02:24 +02:00
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set, and is valid (something other than localhost), then the
transient hostname is not used.</para>
<para>Note that the pretty hostname has little restrictions on the
characters used, while the static and transient hostnames are
limited to the usually accepted characters of Internet domain
names.</para>
<para>Note that the pretty hostname has little restrictions on the characters and length used, while the static and
transient hostnames are limited to the usually accepted characters of Internet domain names, and 64 characters at
maximum (the latter being a Linux limitation).</para>
<para>The static hostname is stored in
<filename>/etc/hostname</filename>, see