Name: pk39325 Date: 08/05/97


Under NIS+, the canonical name for hosts is typically their unqualified
hostname, i.e., server rather than server.domain.org. This is done to appease
NIS+. This behavior causes calls to InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostName()
to return the unqualified name.

It would be nice if the FQDN was returned. If this would break the spec,
then a getDomainName() method would be appreciated. I haven't been
able to find a way in Java to determine the domain name for these NIS+
hosts. This would have to be supplied by a native call or perhaps a
system property.
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