From 474c44f32fca87a93ae8508bfe5dbdefa0f53ea9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 15:18:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] hostname.7: Small improvement to description of domains MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit See: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651900 Reported-by: Krzysztof Żelechowski Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/hostname.7 | 8 ++------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/man7/hostname.7 b/man7/hostname.7 index 9fc606c48..896f4e9ca 100644 --- a/man7/hostname.7 +++ b/man7/hostname.7 @@ -34,17 +34,13 @@ .\" .\" 2008-06-11, mtk, Taken from FreeBSD 6.2 and modified for Linux. .\" -.TH HOSTNAME 7 2008-06-11 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH HOSTNAME 7 2010-11-07 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME hostname \- hostname resolution description .SH DESCRIPTION Hostnames are domains, where a domain is a hierarchical, dot-separated list of subdomains; for example, the machine monet, in the Berkeley -subdomain of the EDU subdomain of the Internet would be represented as - - monet.Berkeley.EDU - -(with no trailing dot). +subdomain of the EDU domain would be represented as "monet.Berkeley.EDU". Hostnames are often used with network client and server programs, which must generally translate the name to an address for use.