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From: | Simon Josefsson |
Subject: | Re: [bug-inetutils] dnsdomainname, domainname, nisdomainname, ypdomainname |
Date: | Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:57:21 +0100 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.130003 (Ma Gnus v0.3) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
Mats Erik Andersson <address@hidden> writes: > måndag den 12 mars 2012 klockan 22:01 skrev Simon Josefsson detta: >> address@hidden (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes: >> >> > > Looks good; but after looking at the actual name for >> > > dnsdomainname several times now I cringe... Domain Name Service >> > > Domain Name?! Does domainname do the same as dnsdomainname? Can >> > > we use that instead? >> > >> > The semantics of these four tools are more or less set in stone, >> > for compatibility with existing tools. The terminology in this >> > area is indeed confused but given the background I can't see what >> > we can do more than making sure the documentation is complete. >> > Simple memory rule: >> > >> > I was afraid of that, oh well... Anyway, go go go Simon go! >> >> I have pushed 'dnsdomainname' now. Let's take a look at the others >> next... > > BSD systems only provide hostname(1) and domainname(1). > > For future use I recommend the native manual pages at > > $ lynx http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi > > $ lynx http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi > > $ lynx http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi > > Note the three different idioms for referencing. Thank you! I note that neither of these 'hostname' implementations appears to be able to canonicalize the name using the resolver. That means our 'dnsdomainname' is thus only for compatibility with existing GNU/Linux systems. Unless someone finds any other systems out there with a 'dnsdomainname' tool on it... /Simon
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