dnsdomainname(1)

dnsdomainname1

Show dns domain name

Usage

dnsdomainname [OPTION ...]

Overview

Show domain part of the system's fully qualified host name.

The tool uses gethostname to get the host name of the system and getaddrinfo to resolve it into a canonical name. The part after the first period ('.') of the canonical name is shown.

-?, --help

give this help list

--usage

give a short usage message

-V, --version

print program version

Releases

18 releases since Debian 1.2 (Rex); the text changed 12 times.

  1. 1.2–1.3
  2. 2.0–2.1
  3. 2.2–3.0
  4. 3.1
  5. 4.0
  6. 5.0
  7. 6.0
  8. 7
  9. 8
  10. 9
  11. 10–12
  12. 13
  13. Arch

--usage since Arch Linux 2026-11-01; -? since Arch Linux 2026-11-01.

--alias until Debian 13 (Trixie); --all-fqdns until Debian 13 (Trixie); --all-ip-addresses until Debian 13 (Trixie); --boot until Debian 13 (Trixie); --domain until Debian 13 (Trixie); --file until Debian 13 (Trixie); --fqdn until Debian 13 (Trixie); --ip-address until Debian 13 (Trixie); --long until Debian 13 (Trixie); --nis until Debian 13 (Trixie); --short until Debian 13 (Trixie); --verbose until Debian 7 (Wheezy); --yp until Debian 13 (Trixie); -A until Debian 13 (Trixie); -F until Debian 13 (Trixie); -I until Debian 13 (Trixie); -a until Debian 13 (Trixie); -b until Debian 13 (Trixie); -d until Debian 13 (Trixie); -f until Debian 13 (Trixie); -h until Debian 13 (Trixie); -i until Debian 13 (Trixie); -s until Debian 13 (Trixie); -v until Debian 7 (Wheezy); -y until Debian 13 (Trixie).

Author

Written by Simon Josefsson.

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to <[email protected]>.

From inetutils 2.8-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.