Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The name used to identify a host on a computer network.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun computing the
unique name by which anydevice attached to anetwork is known. - noun computing (
Internet ) a computer or other network device'sInternet domain name ; afully qualified hostname - noun computing (
Internet ) the portion of a computer'sInternet domain name that comes before the firstperiod ; anunqualified hostname
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Examples
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Where the hostname is the host on which Apache runs.
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For each host define the following resource properties: unbound_name hostname of the host ipmiHostname hostname of the service controller.
Sun Bloggers 2009
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When installing, all we had to do was select options and if more information was needed, boxes would pop up for us to enter our choices, such as hostname or an elastic IP address range.
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Spilled the Beans sendmail can't qualify domain/hostname the command "hostname" gives me my hostname the command "domainname" gives me none but I'm a stand alone desktop
Ubuntu Forums Rumpletumbler 2010
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Edit/etc/rc. conf with vi, on the "hostname" variable change the existing hostname to your new hostname unix
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* Sets DHCP "hostname" for easy identification in DHCP assignments
Xbox-Scene News 2010
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* Sets DHCP "hostname" for easy identification in DHCP assignments
Xbox-Scene News 2010
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CA IDMS r16 supports direct connections from the Type 4 JDBC driver to the Central Version on IDMS. "hostname" is the DNS name or IP address of the machine where the CV is running, and "port" is the IP port that was specified for the listener PTERM (setup on the IDMS side).
Digital Point Forums 2009
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Use SSH as the protocol, to securely transfer stuff from the current directory to the server 'hostname' using the username 'username'.
Technology4Teachers 2009
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Use SSH as the protocol, to securely transfer stuff from the current directory to the server 'hostname' using the username 'username'.
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