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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!das-news.harvard.edu!kepler!jiu From: jiu@kepler.uucp (Haibin Jiu) Subject: Re: domain name Message-ID: <1993Jul2.204948.3004@das.harvard.edu> Sender: usenet@das.harvard.edu (Network News) Organization: Harvard University Engineering Labs References: <1993Jul2.203312.2808@das.harvard.edu> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1993 20:49:48 GMT Lines: 19 I posted it earlier. In article <1993Jul2.203312.2808@das.harvard.edu> jiu@kepler.uucp (Haibin Jiu) writes: >Hi! I am writing a program in which I attempt to get the name of >the current domain. On my Sun workstation I use getdomainname(2) >and it returns the correct string. But when I try to port it to >other systems, the returned string varies according to system. To >see what your system will return, you can type "domainname" at the >UNIX prompt. > >Does anyone know of a sure way to obtain the correct domainname, >hostname, or a combination of both? I think accessing /etc/hosts file is the sure way to get the corrent host and domain name for your Internet node. Any comment? HBJ