Re: Getting hostname

[Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>]

Have you tried 

  host --version

On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 07:34:48PM +0200, Holger Kubiak wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to package a tool. In a shell-script I need access to a hostname
> belonging to a given IP. If the package host is installed I get:
> 
> holger@myhost:~$ host 193.99.144.71
> Name: www.heise.de
> Address: 193.99.144.71
> 
> If the package bind9-host is installed I get:
> 
> holger@myhost:~$ host 193.99.144.71
> 71.144.99.193.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer www.heise.de.
> 
> I wanted to grep and awk the output. As you can see this will be
> difficult. I checked the control-file of bind9-host. There is a line
> "Provides: host" This is the reason why a line "Required: host" in my
> debian/control-file do not solve the problem.
> 
> a) Can I get the hostname in my shell script another way (this could be a
> question for this list)?
> 
> b) Is the provides-line a bug in the package bind9-host, because the
> different host-binaries have very different outputs (this could be a
> question for another list. Which?)
> 
> Greetings
> Holger
> 
> 
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