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From: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: simulating dnsdomain
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--On January 21, 2010 12:10:20 AM -0500 "Aryeh M. Friedman" 
<aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have an application that needs to reliably get the fully qualified dns
> name for the localhost (3rd party app so I don't want to change it
> unless I have to).... currrently it calls dnsdomainname which is in
> linux is an alias for hostname --fqdn but FreeBSD does not have that
> option set... how can I simulate this?

ln -s /bin/hostname /bin/dnsdomainname

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