[fpc-pascal] Portable (or at least working) version of GetDomainName()?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Tomas Hajny wrote:
> On Tue, April 9, 2013 10:14, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> waldo kitty wrote:
>  .
>  .
>>> diggin in, i note that it seems to use the system's uname function...
>>> but i think that is different than the command line "uname" or "uname
>>> -a" because none of my linux machine return their FQDN in this output...
>>> i note that it also seems to be pulling this function from a/the libc
>>> library...
>>>
>>> i note that both, GetDomainName and GetHostName both use the same var
>>> (Sysn : utsname) but just different fields in what is apparently a
>>> record of some type...
>>>
>>> can't trace further... the grill and a pork loin are calling me... not
>>> to mention other mouths in the location wanting some eats soon-ish...
>> It might be notable that Debian doesn't volunteer a domain name unless
>> it's able to contact DNS. I'll get onto nslookup, or just use temporary
>> text (it's only salt for a password hash, and is stored).
> 
> Have you tried using unit netdb from package fcl-net? It doesn't support
> Windows (and some other platforms yet), but it should work for Unix
> targets. I believe that the two approaches for finding out the domain are
> either getting it from the DNS or having it specified in /etc/resolv (and
> both are used by unit netdb - search for DefaultDomainList).

Thanks for the additional pointer, will investigate.

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