Aug 12, 2011
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On Solaris, what is a terse way to get the fully qualified domain name (fqdn) for the current host

Question

When I want the fully qualified domain name on Linux, I can write …

hostname --fqdn

To get the same thing on Solaris, is it necessary to write …

cut -f 2-3 /etc/hosts | grep ^`hostname`t | cut -f 2

… or is there something more brief?

Answer

From here:

The hostname command should return an FQDN…
…
The solution is to edit /etc/nodename and put the FQDN in there and reboot.

    echo foo.your.domain.com > /etc/nodename

You might also be able to use:

getent hosts `hostname` | cut -f 3

or similar.

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