topic Re: Full Domain in Operating System - HP-UX

Full Domain

Dario_1 — Wed, 02 Apr 2003 16:03:25 GMT

Is there other command other than hostname and nslookup or that will give me the full server domain?

Thank you for your help.

Re: Full Domain

Jeff Schussele — Wed, 02 Apr 2003 16:06:12 GMT

Hi,

grep domain /etc/resolv.conf

HTH,
Jeff

Re: Full Domain

Colin Topliss — Wed, 02 Apr 2003 16:07:57 GMT

If you mean the domain that the server is currently residing in, you could try

test:/root=> domainname
wibble.com

Col.

Re: Full Domain

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 02 Apr 2003 16:08:17 GMT

You can install this utility. I recommend against using the depots unless they have been improved. Get the source and compile it that way.

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Networking/Admin/dig-2.0/

This will allow you do get really high quality information.

You can use nslookup and get more details with set commands.

nslookup
> set type=mx
> windflite.com

This might help as well.

SEP

Re: Full Domain

Colin Topliss — Wed, 02 Apr 2003 16:09:38 GMT

I should add that that what you get back depends on what name service resolution you are using!

Re: Full Domain

Dario_1 — Wed, 02 Apr 2003 16:10:58 GMT

Is there any command that will give me the name.domain.com together?

Thx,

DR

Re: Full Domain

Jeff Schussele — Wed, 02 Apr 2003 16:16:02 GMT

Hi Dario,

I always setup the system hostname in /etc/hosts as follows:

111.222.111.222 hostname hostname.company.com

i.e. the FQDN is an alias in the hosts file. If this is used then you could do the following

grep hostname /etc/hosts | awk '{print $3}'

Rgds,
Jeff

Re: Full Domain

Colin Topliss — Wed, 02 Apr 2003 16:23:01 GMT

Not that I know of.

The FQDN normally appears in your host file against the IP address you want that name associated with.

domainname only works with NIS (which is why I mentioned the name resolver).

So, nslookup or looking in the host file (assumiing you've added this as either the primary name or an alias) are your best bets.

Re: Full Domain

Jeff Schussele — Wed, 02 Apr 2003 16:25:32 GMT

Hi (again) Dario,

It should be noted that the domainname command deals ONLY with the NIS domain name.
This is rarely if ever the same as the domain name used for host naming.
Outside of using nslookup or the commands listed above, there is no one command I know of that will give you the FQDN of a host.

Rgds,
Jeff

Re: Full Domain

Dario_1 — Wed, 02 Apr 2003 16:32:31 GMT

Thank you to all of you. That's what I thought.

Regards,

Dario

Re: Full Domain

Marc Ahrendt — Thu, 03 Apr 2003 18:29:45 GMT

if your system is using DNS then this will work

ping `hostname` -n 1 | head -n 1 | awk '{print $2}' | tr -d ':'