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+.\" $OpenBSD: hostname.7,v 1.11 2019/05/12 16:55:11 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: hostname.7,v 1.4 1994/11/30 19:07:14 jtc Exp $
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 1987, 1990, 1993
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+.\"
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+.\"
+.\" @(#)hostname.7 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/30/93
+.\"
+.Dd $Mdocdate: May 12 2019 $
+.Dt HOSTNAME 7
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm hostname
+.Nd host name 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
+.Pp
+.Dl monet.Berkeley.EDU
+.Pp
+(with no trailing dot).
+.Pp
+Hostnames are often used with network client and server programs,
+which must generally translate the name to an address for use.
+(This function is generally performed by the library routine
+.Xr gethostbyname 3 . )
+Hostnames are resolved by the Internet name resolver in the following
+fashion.
+.Pp
+If the input name ends with a trailing dot,
+the trailing dot is removed,
+and the remaining name is looked up with no further processing.
+.Pp
+If the input name does not end with a trailing dot, it is looked up
+by searching through a list of domains until a match is found.
+The default search list includes first the local domain,
+then its parent domains with at least 2 name components (longest first).
+For example,
+in the domain CS.Berkeley.EDU, the name lithium.CChem will be checked first
+as lithium.CChem.CS.Berkeley.EDU and then as lithium.CChem.Berkeley.EDU.
+Lithium.CChem.EDU will not be tried, as there is only one component
+remaining from the local domain.
+The search path can be changed from the default
+by a system-wide configuration file (see
+.Xr resolv.conf 5 ) .
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr gethostbyname 3 ,
+.Xr resolv.conf 5 ,
+.Xr nsd 8 ,
+.Xr unbound 8
+.Sh HISTORY
+A
+.Nm
+manual page appeared in
+.Bx 4.2 .