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- hostname [<name>]
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- Display or set the local host's name. By convention this should be
- the same as the host's primary domain name. This string is used
- only in the greeting messages of the various network servers; note
- that it does NOT set the system's IP address.
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- hostname crv.kuyx.ampr.org.
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- If <hostname> is the same as an <interface> defined in an
- 'attach' command, this command will search for a CNAME domain
- resource record which corresponds to the IP address of the
- <interface>. This is commonly used for to set your hostname to
- that of a dynamically assigned IP address dial-in line.
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