|
Hopefully, this page is exactly what you are looking for, but if not, you can always find further assistance on Unix/Linux Forum!
HOSTNAME(7) FreeBSD Miscellaneous Information Manual HOSTNAME(7)
NAME
hostname -- host name resolution description
DESCRIPTION
Hostnames are domains, where a domain is a hierarchical, dot-separated
list of subdomains; for example, the machine monet, in the Berkeley sub-
domain of the EDU subdomain of the Internet would be represented as
monet.Berkeley.EDU
(with no trailing dot).
Hostnames are often used with network client and server programs, which
must generally translate the name to an address for use. (This function
is generally performed by the library routine gethostbyname(3).) Host-
names are resolved by the Internet name resolver in the following fash-
ion.
If the name consists of a single component, i.e., contains no dot, and if
the environment variable ``HOSTALIASES'' is set to the name of a file,
that file is searched for any string matching the input hostname. The
file should consist of lines made up of two white-space separated
strings, the first of which is the hostname alias, and the second of
which is the complete hostname to be substituted for that alias. If a
case-insensitive match is found between the hostname to be resolved and
the first field of a line in the file, the substituted name is looked up
with no further processing.
If the input name ends with a trailing dot, the trailing dot is removed,
and the remaining name is looked up with no further processing.
If the input name does not end with a trailing dot, it is looked up by
searching through a list of domains until a match is found. The default
search list includes first the local domain, then its parent domains with
at least 2 name components (longest first). For example, in the domain
CS.Berkeley.EDU, the name lithium.CChem will be checked first as
lithium.CChem.CS.Berkeley.EDU and then as lithium.CChem.Berkeley.EDU.
Lithium.CChem.EDU will not be tried, as there is only one component
remaining from the local domain. The search path can be changed from the
default by a system-wide configuration file (see resolver(5)).
SEE ALSO
gethostbyname(3), resolver(5), mailaddr(7), named(8)
HISTORY
Hostname appeared in 4.2BSD.
FreeBSD 6.2 December 30, 1993 FreeBSD 6.2
Man(1) output converted with
man2html and wrapped by fishsponge
This page was generated on Wed Sep 19 20:33:58 BST 2007
|
Your favourite pages:
No pages logged yet.
Trying to save cookie... Top 10 most popular pages:
svn man page (5400 hits)
(FreeBSD 6.2)
sqlite3 man page (5399 hits)
(openSUSE 10.2)
adv_cap_autoneg man page (4903 hits)
(Solaris 10 11_06)
CPAN man page (4638 hits)
(Suse Linux 10.1)
ssh man page (4358 hits)
(Suse Linux 10.1)
ssh-socks5-proxy-connect man page (3025 hits)
(Solaris 10 11_06)
netcat man page (2831 hits)
(Suse Linux 10.1)
signal man page (2740 hits)
(Suse Linux 10.1)
pprosetup man page (2531 hits)
(Solaris 10 11_06)
startproc man page (2526 hits)
(Suse Linux 10.1)
|
Man Pages 
