Generating a random hostname

[Matthew Seaman]

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On 17/03/2010 22:06:30, Peter Steele wrote:
> Is there any facility in FreeBSD for generating a random hostname? We
> have a template with a fixed hostname that has to be changed after
> the template is closed. It would be useful to have a hostname
> generated randomly.

perl -le '@a=(a..z,0..9); print map {$a[rand @a]} (1..8)'

That gives you 2,821,109,907,456 different possibilities so you should
be able to use it for a while without too much fear of duplicates.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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