dhcpcd-discuss

On 21/04/2020 22:41, Mark Davies wrote:
> Sorry for the delay replying - perils of trying to test something
> remotely in a lockdown.   I made the change on a remote machine and
> rebooted it and for some reason it didn't come back and I won't be able
> to get in and see why for at least a week.  So rather than potentially
> taking another remote machine out I had to reproduce the setup locally.
>
> Having done that I can confirm that your patch works.  And yes I have
> force_hostname set to true, because if I don't do that the hostname ends
> up being "archlinux" always.

I ended up going with your patch here:
https://roy.marples.name/cgit/dhcpcd.git/commit/?id=92a4102beb58d5f3b2c6aead6039d37a5f6b2d95

force_hostname is a bad idea though.
During the arch install you probably clicked "ok" to a default hostname.
Check this: 
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_configuration#Set_the_hostname

Then you can remove the force_hostname option.

Roy