(e.g. "Lennart's Laptop"), the static hostname which
is used to initialize the kernel hostname at boot
(e.g. "lennarts-laptop"), and the transient hostname
- which might be assigned temporarily due to network
- configuration and might revert back to the static
- hostname if network connectivity is lost and is only
- temporarily written to the kernel hostname
- (e.g. "dhcp-47-11").</para>
+ which is a default received from network configuration.
+ If a static hostname is 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