As per the this question's title, hostname
doesn't return domain info and domainname
returns empty. I want to find out the full machine and domain for the machine I'm using (Mac OS X 10.5.8). How can I go about doing this? Tks.
2 Answers
host `hostname`
will have what you are looking for. To extract just the fully qualified domain name
host `hostname` | sed 's/\([^ ]*\)\ .*/\1/'
Of course; this only really works if you've applied the AlwaysAppendSearchDomains fix to mDNSResponder. In some cases, for example you are behind a VPN, no amount of coaxing that I've found will give you the domain name if the infrastructure has not been able to set it for you.
Probably you don't have a domain defined right now
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Thanks for the prompt reply Dominik. I haven't got a hand in the network itself but is there anything I can do as a client to get that domain to set itself?– AnonymousMar 18, 2010 at 19:30
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Yeap. IP is auto-assigned via DHCP. If I do a DNS lookup using $ host
hostname
it does show me the full domain.– AnonymousMar 18, 2010 at 19:36 -
In that last comment it hostname should be wrapped in backticks.– AnonymousMar 18, 2010 at 19:48