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diff --git a/man/hostnamectl.xml b/man/hostnamectl.xml
index 6746a7042f..a11f2215d9 100644
--- a/man/hostnamectl.xml
+++ b/man/hostnamectl.xml
@@ -69,11 +69,9 @@
(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 might be assigned temporarily due to network
- configuration and might revert back to the static
- hostname if network connectivity is lost and is only
- temporarily written to the kernel hostname
- (e.g. "dhcp-47-11").</para>
+ 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>
<para>Note that the pretty hostname has little
restrictions on the characters used, while the static