Index: /trunk/packages/invirt-xen-config/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- /trunk/packages/invirt-xen-config/debian/changelog	(revision 1785)
+++ /trunk/packages/invirt-xen-config/debian/changelog	(revision 1786)
@@ -1,2 +1,9 @@
+invirt-xen-config (0.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Explicitly grab the short form of the hostname to assemble the backend
+    hostname
+
+ -- Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>  Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:27:07 -0500
+
 invirt-xen-config (0.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
 
Index: /trunk/packages/invirt-xen-config/debian/transform_xend-config.sxp.invirt.mako
===================================================================
--- /trunk/packages/invirt-xen-config/debian/transform_xend-config.sxp.invirt.mako	(revision 1785)
+++ /trunk/packages/invirt-xen-config/debian/transform_xend-config.sxp.invirt.mako	(revision 1786)
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@
 from invirt.config import structs as cfg
 import os
-hostname = os.uname()[1]
+hostname = os.uname()[1].split('.')[0]
 %>
 EOF