Full Domain

[Dario_1]

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

Thank you for your help.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi,

grep domain /etc/resolv.conf

HTH,
Jeff

[Colin Topliss · Accepted solution]

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

test:/root=> domainname
wibble.com

Col.

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[Colin Topliss]

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

[Dario_1]

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

Thx,

DR

[Jeff Schussele]

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

[Colin Topliss]

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.

[Jeff Schussele]

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

[Dario_1]

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

Regards,

Dario

[Marc Ahrendt]

if your system is using DNS then this will work

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