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Subject: Re: Generating a random hostname
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> 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

I have somewhere a Perl script that can be used/adapted to generate
pseudo English words.

You would have to work on the script though, because now it also add
numbers and other signs, to generate passwords.

Bests,

Olivier