high-level "pretty" hostname which might include all kinds of
special characters (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 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>
+ "lennarts-laptop"), and the transient hostname which is a fallback
+ value 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 and transient hostnames are