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diff --git a/misc-utils/README.hostname b/misc-utils/README.hostname new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1e82b8cf --- /dev/null +++ b/misc-utils/README.hostname @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ + +You may ask "Why another version of the hostname command?". The answer is +simple. A lot of people misuse the domainname command to get the DNS domain +name. Since the domainname command should ONLY be used to set/show the NIS +domain name (formerly known as Yellow Pages) there was no easy way to get +the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) or the DNS domainname from within a +shell script. + +This hostname command offers you some additional features: + +- show the FQDN (long host name) +- show the short host name +- show the DNS domain name +- read the host name from file + +For further informations simply type "hostname --help" or read the manual +page. + +If the program is called as dnsdomainname it will simply show the DNS domain +name. + +If you ONLY use the loopback mode you can only use the normal features +(set/show the host name) since you probably don't have a FQDN (Fully Qualified +Domain Name) in the /etc/hosts file. You can change this by either using +the dummy device or by changing the localhost line in /etc/hosts to +something like this (it will use localhost as an alias name): + +127.0.0.1 erdos.maths.groucho.edu localhost erdos + |