From: Stephen L Johnson <sjohnson@monsters.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 04:09:17 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Initial import
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Initial import
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diff --git a/utils/gethost-test b/utils/gethost-test
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..314f04c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/gethost-test
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+#
+# gethost-test - This program can be used to test whether you system is setup
+#                to get it's fully qualified domain name.
+
+use Sys::Hostname;
+
+# Get our hostname and try to get fully qualified domain name
+$host = &Sys::Hostname::hostname();
+print "\nHost name found to be - $host \n\n";
+
+($HOST) = gethostbyname($host);
+print "gethostbyname() says my host name is - $HOST \n\n";
+
+@parts = split(/\./,$HOST);
+
+if ( $#parts + 1 >= 3 ) {
+    print "I have apparently found a fully qualified domain name.\n" . 
+    "\"$HOST\" should be the name given for this host in the\n" . 
+    "spong.hosts configuration file.\n\n";
+} else {
+    print "I didn't find a fully qualified host name. You will have trouble
+getting spong-server to recognize this host. You have couple of options
+  1) In your \"/etc/hosts\" file make sure that the first name after your
+     host's ip address is a fully qualify domain name.
+  2) Name sure your host is defined in your DNS servers and make sure that
+     'dns' is before 'files' on the 'hosts:' line of your \"/etc/nsswitch\"
+     file or your OS's equivalent file. You want the resolver to look in
+     DNS before the \"/etc/hosts\" file.\n\n";
+}
+