Re: Getting hostname

To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Cc: Guido Guenther <agx@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Getting hostname
From: bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx)
Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 16:16:59 -0600
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Guido Guenther wrote:
> Holger Kubiak wrote:
> foo@bar:~$ getent hosts 193.99.144.71
> 193.99.144.71   www.heise.de

Just noting that 'getent' is GNU libc only and does not exist on other
systems.  It is not portable.

Bob

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