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Old 07-05-2002
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What's the difference between a HOSTNAME and HOSTID?
Hi All,

I am curious. What is the difference between the Hostname and Hostid?

What are the general ways of getting the hostid of a machine?
Are there ready commands?

What is the different usage of these 2?

Thanks,
noknok