Unresolved Hostname

The Solaris LDAP client backend is designed to return fully qualified hostnames for host lookups, such as hostnames returned by gethostbyname(3N) and getipnodebyname(3N). If the name stored is fully 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 fully 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.