id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,resolution,keywords,cc,fix_version,see_also 728,Installer should be more robust to network suckage,jdreed,jdreed,"This is partially #623, but also a different problem. In 57 today, the DHCP server has handing out net-10 addresses (10.119), but for some reason wasn't handing out DNS info. This caused d-i to barf (with the message '"""" is not a valid hostname'). Using manual configuration worked. DHCP clearly works enough to get PXE working, but d-i's insistence on re-configuring causes it to barf. Can we perhaps get the installer to say ""Do you want to specify a static IP?"" before it even tries DHCP?",defect,closed,normal,Natty Release,--,fixed,,,,