Comment 33 for bug 628087

Ivanka, to reframe Oliver's comment: we heavily promote the idea that
lots of apps allow easy sharing with <machinename>.local. And all of
those break if you end up with two machines called michael-desktop.local

So, we probably need to do this.

I agree with your assessment that we do not want a whole new page, or
Advanced rathole, for this. We could pre-populate the field using
Michael's preferred algorithm of <user>-desktop|laptop|[netbook]?.

In future we should probably ALSO do an avahi name check to see if
that's going to conflict with something on the current network and
default to a -2 or some other disambiguator accordingly.

Mark