Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 10:07:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> To: "Rommel B. Ikeda" <r_ikeda@oisca.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: host and hostname Message-ID: <20030903100321.O649@pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <004e01c371ed$e0fc3a00$3601a8c0@nova> References: <004e01c371ed$e0fc3a00$3601a8c0@nova>
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On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Rommel B. Ikeda wrote: > Hi... > > I am still a newbie...and practicing how to get use to FreeBSD and UNIX... > > I have a question: > Why is it when I invoke the command "host", this comes out "host not found, > try again". host selects information from the internet about registered domains, try # host freebsd.org > But if I invoke the "hostname" command it displays my hostname and Domain... hostname reads your local /etc/rc.conf file. Regards, Uli. > > Can someone point me to some information about it aside from the man > pages... > > Thank you, > > Rommel B. Ikeda > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > +---------------------------+ | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---------------------------+
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