[erlang-questions] reliably figure out hostname

[Raimo Niskanen]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 09:40:03AM +0100, Gustav Simonsson wrote:
> 
> {ok, LocalHostName} = inet:gethostname().
> inet_res:gethostbyname(LocalHostName).

That forces using the OTP DNS resolver, which may be in conflict
with the current node configuration. The first approach should be:

    {ok, LocalHostName} = inet:gethostname().
    inet:gethostbyname(LocalHostName).

/ Raimo Niskanen

> 
> You get a hostent record back which has the FQDN.
> 
> // Gustav Simonsson
> 
> Sent from my PC
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tim Watson" <watson.timothy@REDACTED>
> > To: "Tim Watson" <watson.timothy@REDACTED>
> > Cc: "erlang-questions Questions" <erlang-questions@REDACTED>
> > Sent: Thursday, 2 August, 2012 10:17:32 AM
> > Subject: Re: [erlang-questions] reliably figure out hostname
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Any takers for this? I can't be the only person who's had to figure
> > this out. The context is a distributed systems testing framework
> > that needs to support resolving 'localhost' to a proper host name so
> > the framework can become a hidden node and interact with the other
> > erlang nodes It is testing against. Having to specify the real host
> > name would make configuring the tool across different machines and
> > development environments unpleasantly complicated so figuring out
> > the right hostname is a boon in terms of keeping the configuration
> > overhead down, but doing this for long names nodes is proving highly
> > awkward.
> > 
> > 
> > Can anyone suggest a good portable solution?
> > 
> > On 31 Jul 2012, at 13:43, Tim Watson < watson.timothy@REDACTED >
> > wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Is there a way to calculate the hostname reliably across platforms in
> > Erlang? I have a non-distributed node that I wish to become a
> > distributed node. Normally I call net_kernel:start([Name,
> > shortnames]) and this is just fine. It also works with [Name,
> > longnames] *sometimes and on some systems* - but other times it
> > pukes. I've tried looking in the 'domain' or 'search' entries from
> > inet:get_rc/0 but these are not always populated, even when dns
> > config is clearly in place. I've also tried using
> > 'inet_db:get_searchlist/0' but again, sometimes this returns [[]]
> > but net_kernel:start([foobar, longnames]) doesn't work, whereas
> > doing net_kernel:start([ foobar@REDACTED , longnames]) does.
> > 
> > 
> > Am I missing something incredibly obvious here? *is* there actually a
> > simple way of determining what the proper fqdn for the machine
> > should be, without breaking out to the os? I had even considered
> > doing inet:gethostbyname/1 but again, the search domains entry seems
> > to be empty, so I'd assume that -name foobar will work whereas in
> > fact, -name foobar @fqdn is required otherwise net_kernel won't
> > start.
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/ Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB