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Re: getting fqdn from gethostname on a hamm box



On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 03:06:09PM -0700, Alan Su wrote:
> when i call gethostname() on my hamm, it returns only the name of the
> machine, rather than a fqdn.  i distinctly remember that when i was
> running bo, i got a fqdn.  does anyone know how i can make it return
> the fqdn?  or is there another function i should be using?  thanks.
> 
> (btw, getdomainname() returns "(none)", which suggests to me that
> something else is going on here.  am i right?)

I had this at work the other day, the problem was /etc/hosts:

1.2.3.4   name  name.domain.com

rather than

1.2.3.4  name.domain.com name

which works much better

Adrian

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