misc-utils/README.hostname

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   2 You may ask "Why another version of the hostname command?". The answer is
   3 simple. A lot of people misuse the domainname command to get the DNS domain
   4 name. Since the domainname command should ONLY be used to set/show the NIS
   5 domain name (formerly known as Yellow Pages) there was no easy way to get
   6 the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) or the DNS domainname from within a
   7 shell script.
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   9 This hostname command offers you some additional features:
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  11 - show the FQDN (long host name)
  12 - show the short host name
  13 - show the DNS domain name
  14 - read the host name from file
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  16 For further informations simply type "hostname --help" or read the manual
  17 page.
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  19 If the program is called as dnsdomainname it will simply show the DNS domain
  20 name.
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  22 If you ONLY use the loopback mode you can only use the normal features
  23 (set/show the host name) since you probably don't have a FQDN (Fully Qualified
  24 Domain Name) in the /etc/hosts file. You can change this by either using
  25 the dummy device or by changing the localhost line in /etc/hosts to
  26 something like this (it will use localhost as an alias name):
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  28 127.0.0.1       erdos.maths.groucho.edu         localhost erdos
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