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34 | .\" @(#)hostname.7 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/30/93 | |
35 | .\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man7/hostname.7,v 1.7 2004/07/03 18:29:23 ru Exp $ | |
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37 | .\" 2008-06-11, mtk, Taken from FreeBSD 6.2 and modified for Linux. | |
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474c44f3 | 39 | .TH HOSTNAME 7 2010-11-07 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
06b00cff | 40 | .SH NAME |
ddaec46d | 41 | hostname \- hostname resolution description |
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42 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
43 | Hostnames are domains, where a domain is a hierarchical, dot-separated | |
44 | list of subdomains; for example, the machine monet, in the Berkeley | |
474c44f3 | 45 | subdomain of the EDU domain would be represented as "monet.Berkeley.EDU". |
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46 | |
47 | Hostnames are often used with network client and server programs, | |
48 | which must generally translate the name to an address for use. | |
49 | (This task is generally performed by either | |
50 | .BR getaddrinfo (3) | |
51 | or the obsolete | |
52 | .BR gethostbyname (3).) | |
53 | Hostnames are resolved by the Internet name resolver in the following | |
54 | fashion. | |
55 | ||
56 | If the name consists of a single component, that is, contains no dot, | |
57 | and if the environment variable | |
58 | .B HOSTALIASES | |
59 | is set to the name of a file, | |
60 | that file is searched for any string matching the input hostname. | |
61 | The file should consist of lines made up of two white-space separated strings, | |
62 | the first of which is the hostname alias, | |
63 | and the second of which is the complete hostname | |
64 | to be substituted for that alias. | |
65 | If a case-insensitive match is found between the hostname to be resolved | |
66 | and the first field of a line in the file, the substituted name is looked | |
67 | up with no further processing. | |
68 | ||
69 | If the input name ends with a trailing dot, | |
70 | the trailing dot is removed, | |
71 | and the remaining name is looked up with no further processing. | |
72 | ||
73 | If the input name does not end with a trailing dot, it is looked up | |
74 | by searching through a list of domains until a match is found. | |
75 | The default search list includes first the local domain, | |
76 | then its parent domains with at least 2 name components (longest first). | |
77 | For example, | |
78 | in the domain CS.Berkeley.EDU, the name lithium.CChem will be checked first | |
79 | as lithium.CChem.CS.Berkeley.EDU and then as lithium.CChem.Berkeley.EDU. | |
80 | Lithium.CChem.EDU will not be tried, as there is only one component | |
81 | remaining from the local domain. | |
82 | The search path can be changed from the default | |
83 | by a system-wide configuration file (see | |
84 | .BR resolver (5)). | |
85 | .SH SEE ALSO | |
86 | .BR gethostbyname (3), | |
87 | .BR resolver (5), | |
88 | .BR mailaddr (7), | |
89 | .BR named (8) | |
90 | .\" .SH HISTORY | |
91 | .\" Hostname appeared in | |
92 | .\" 4.2BSD. |