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DOMAINNAME(1)                            BSD General Commands Manual                           DOMAINNAME(1)

NAME
     domainname -- set or print name of current YP/NIS domain

SYNOPSIS
     domainname [ypdomain]

DESCRIPTION
     The domainname utility prints the name of the current YP/NIS domain.  The super-user can set the domain
     name by supplying an argument; this is usually done at startup by specifying a domain name in the con-tents contents
     tents of the file /etc/defaultdomain.

NOTES
     The YP/NIS (formerly ``Yellow Pages'' but renamed for legal reasons) domain name does not necessarily
     have anything to do with the Domain Name System domain name, although they are often set equal for
     administrative convenience.

SEE ALSO
     getdomainname(3)

HISTORY
     The domainname command appeared in FreeBSD 1.1, based on a similar command in SunOS.

BSD                                          September 18, 1994                                          BSD

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