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In Unix (Solaris) is there any command that returns the hostname and domain name together?

For instance:

hostname -> servername
domainname -> us.xyz.com

I need : servername.us.xyz.com

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    Does printf "%s" "$(hostname) $(domainname)" not work? Commented May 9, 2012 at 9:54
  • try to use "hostname -f " that will be enough i hope so Commented May 27, 2015 at 11:00

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The command

hostname --fqdn (or -f)

might also do what you want or not since on my system I get (none) when I run domainname

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    According to the manpage for hostname(1) on Solaris 10 (on sun4v) and every older version I've used, --fqdn isn't available. It just tries to set the hostname to --fqdn. If you run it as a non-superuser for safety, it says ‘uname: error in setting name: Not owner’. This is obviously the stock Solaris hostname. The poster doesn't indicate whether or not they have the GNU toolset installed. Commented May 11, 2012 at 21:57
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This will work if your domain is set correctly in resolv.conf. You can also use the domainname command the others have mentioned if your NIS domainname is the same as your DNS domain.

echo `uname -n`.`awk '/^domain/ {print $2}' /etc/resolv.conf`
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This one has been bugging me for years, too. I just work around it by saying

$(hostname).$(domainname)

You could define a shell function or alias:

fqdn () {
    echo $(hostname).$(domainname)
}
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    domainnname actually reports your NIS domain if you're running NIS. This is not necessarily the same as your DNS domain name. Commented May 9, 2012 at 17:45
  • No, it isn't. But since I've managed to evade/avoid NIS since it was Yellow Pages, I never knew that. :) So is there a reliable way to get the domain name if the NIS one is different? Commented May 9, 2012 at 20:33
  • You should feel blessed that you've avoided NIS. It's annoying. And even the Mozilla Thunderbird team screwed this one up since they depended on 'domainname' output for the default reply-to in 2.0. For actual domainname, I use hostname --fqdn | cut -d. -f2-4 Commented May 10, 2012 at 16:28
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    This works well on Linux. On Solaris at least up to 10, hostname --fqdn sets the hostname to ‘--fqdn’, which is probably a bad idea (so make sure you're not root if you try it). :) Is --fqdn supported on Solaris 11? Commented May 11, 2012 at 21:54
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    Oy! Inadvertently setting the hostname would be a pain, and the OP did say Solaris. Thanks! Commented May 11, 2012 at 21:59
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check-hostname | awk '{ print $NF }'

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    Please explain a bit for non-experts. Commented Mar 20, 2013 at 19:05
  • Synopsis /usr/sbin/check-hostname Description The check-hostname script is a migration aid for sendmail(1M). This script tries to determine the local host's fully-qualified host name (FQHN) in a manner similar to sendmail(1M). If check-hostname is able to determine the FQHN of the local host, it reports success. Otherwise, check-hostname reports how to reconfigure the system so that the FQHN can be properly determined. Commented Mar 20, 2013 at 19:53
  • /usr/sbin/check-hostname will report the FQDN, if it is defined, on Solaris systems. Piping the output to awk and using print $NF just reports the last field of output from check-hostname, which is the FQDN. This is the most direct method I am aware of to obtain this information from the command line, assuming you have a fully qualified domain name. If not, then this will not work, but I did not feel the need to show that, as in that case hostname is all you have. If you are not using Solaris, this will not work either, but the query was directed for Solaris. Commented Mar 20, 2013 at 20:04
  • Seriously, I do not understand how this does not answer the question, which was: "In unix (Solaris) is there any command that returns the hostname and domain name together?" The answer is "yes" there is, and that command is: check-hostname | awk '{ print $NF }' Commented Mar 20, 2013 at 20:25
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    The real answer is in your comments. Giving a one-line command with little (or in your case, none) explanation is not the kind of answer this website is about. Commented Mar 20, 2013 at 23:08
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I know this is an older thread but I had a need for pulling the hostname and domain name separately in a script.

ealgumby's response to use check-hostname was something I had never seen before so I gave it a try to great success for my needs. I would mark it as helpful but apparently I don't have the rep to do so.

I set the domain as follows looping through the output from check-hostname. 

domain=`check-hostname | nawk -F\. '{for(i=2; i<NF;i++){printf $i"."}printf $NF"\n"}'`
fqdn=`hostname`'.'${domain}
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I ve done a little workaround for hostname and host:

$ host $(hostname -i) | awk '{print $NF }'

(I m using Centos but it should work elsewhere)

Getting the domain without trailing dot:

$ host $(hostname -i) | awk '{print substr($NF, 1, length($NF)-1)}'
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  • on my ubuntu, hostname -i print IP adress corresponding to hostname. Commented Jul 6, 2015 at 11:20
  • Yes that's right , so I pass this IP to host command . This will get you something like this: YOUR_IP.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer hostname.domainname. with awk I get the last column which is hostname.domainname Commented Jul 6, 2015 at 13:57
  • I see, unfortunatly using host $(hostname -i) give me a list of 8 hostname, all with same IP, and no hostname corresponding to my hosts Commented Jul 6, 2015 at 14:01
  • are you sure you do not have any aliases for host command? it seems that your command host has an alias to host -a Commented Mar 19, 2016 at 13:06
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On Solaris this worked well for me: sorry for the backtick, it is the reversed quote next to number 1 on a qwerty keyboard or you can use $( command) in KSH

getent hosts (backtick) /usr/bin/hostname (backtick)

or

getent hosts $(/usr/bin/hostname)

example:

root@melauto:[/]# getent hosts $(/usr/bin/hostname)

10.4.19.241     melauto.sro.vic.gov.au melauto loghost
root@melauto:[/]#

getent queries the current name search mechanism as specified in /etc/nsswitch.conf and returns the information that matches the search, here it returns the info as found in /etc/hosts. if you lookup for the host info for another host that is not in /etc/hosts, it will look in DNS provided that is what is defined in /etc/nsswitch.conf

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For Debain the dnsdomainname is the proper command.

From hostname(1) man page: dnsdomainname will print the domain part of the FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name). The complete FQDN of the system is returned with hostname --fqdn

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In a Unix bash script, in Sun Solaris 10, I just displayed my host name by:

echo "My hostname is $(hostname)"

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  • "along with domain name" Commented Mar 21, 2013 at 3:21
  • but does it work with the -f on solaris? works fine on Linux. Commented Jun 19, 2023 at 15:21

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