diff -Nru preseed-1.71ubuntu5/debian/changelog preseed-1.71ubuntu6/debian/changelog
--- preseed-1.71ubuntu5/debian/changelog	2017-04-27 02:03:35.000000000 +0800
+++ preseed-1.71ubuntu6/debian/changelog	2018-01-29 17:07:24.000000000 +0800
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+preseed (1.71ubuntu6) artful; urgency=medium
+
+  * Fix for netcfg/hostname, if set, to take precedence. (LP: #1745531)
+    - Modify debian/network-preseed.postinst to make it more robust
+
+ -- Zhang Hua <joshua.zhang@canonical.com>  Fri, 26 Jan 2018 13:32:11 +0800
+
 preseed (1.71ubuntu5) artful; urgency=medium
 
   * Change default preseed root to "d-i/artful/./preseed.cfg".
diff -Nru preseed-1.71ubuntu5/debian/network-preseed.postinst preseed-1.71ubuntu6/debian/network-preseed.postinst
--- preseed-1.71ubuntu5/debian/network-preseed.postinst	2016-10-05 23:50:09.000000000 +0800
+++ preseed-1.71ubuntu6/debian/network-preseed.postinst	2018-01-26 13:31:43.000000000 +0800
@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@
 
 CURRENT_HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`
 if db_get netcfg/hostname && [ "$RET" ]; then
-        if ! echo "$RET" | grep -q 'ubuntu'; then
+        if ! echo "$RET" | grep -qw 'ubuntu'; then
 		# default hostname is ubuntu; if that's what we have in the
 		# netcfg/hostname template, then netcfg will already have
 		# done the right thing.
 		NETCFG_HOSTNAME="$RET"
 		/bin/sed -i "s/$CURRENT_HOSTNAME/$NETCFG_HOSTNAME/" /etc/hostname
-		/bin/sed -i "s/$CURRENT_HOSTNAME/$NETCFG_HOSTNAME/" /etc/hosts
+		/bin/sed -i "s/\b${CURRENT_HOSTNAME}\b/${NETCFG_HOSTNAME}/g" /etc/hosts
 		/bin/hostname "$NETCFG_HOSTNAME"
 		/usr/bin/logger -t netcfg "d-i netcfg/hostname $NETCFG_HOSTNAME took precedence"
 	fi