hostname(5)


hostname -- host name resolution description

Description

Hostnames are domains, where a domain is a hierarchical, dot-separated list of subdomains. For example, the machine laiter, in the Lachman subdomain of the COM subdomain of the ARPANET would be represented as
   laiter.Lachman.COM 
(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. The name-to-address translation is generally performed by the library routine gethostbyname [see gethostent(3N)].

Hostnames are resolved by the Internet name resolver in the following fashion:

References

gethostent(3N), named(1Mtcp), resolv.conf(4tcp)

RFC1035


30 January 1998
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