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Old 06-29-2009
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What exactly are, for you, the differences between "host name" and "server name"?

"hostname" will give you the machines host name. "hostname -f" will give you the machines FQDN (but this is Linux only). If you mean the DNS entry for an IP used by the machine, you could use "dig -x <IP>" to get that.