Unresolved Hostname

The Solaris operating environment LDAP client backend returns fully qualified hostnames for host lookups, such as hostnames returned by gethostbyname(3N) and getipnodebyname(3N). If the name stored is qualified that is contains at least one dot, the client returns the name as is. For example, if the name stored is hostB.eng, the returned name is hostB.eng.

If the name stored in the LDAP directory is not qualified (it does not contain any dot), the client backend appends the domain part to the name. For example, if the name stored is hostA, the returned name is hostA.domainname.