Bill Janssen wrote:
>> HostName and LocalHostName are DNS names, while ComputerName is not.
>
>So, is the result of /bin/hostname related to any of these?
Are you looking for a correlation between setting the hostname with the
hostname command and setting or getting it with scutil? If so, for what
purpose: what are you trying to do?
When you run 'hostname' and compare its output to 'scutil --get
LocalHostName' and 'scutil --get HostName', you will see some differences.
Likewise when you set the name with the setters. You should just try it
and see what happens.
When I run the setters, they don't appear to affect one another, but I
didn't do a reboot to see which value has precedence at boot. The Bonjour
name DOES change when LocalHostName is set, and it changes dynamically. I
used Tildesoft's free Bonjour Browser utility to observe this in real-time.
Depending on what you're trying to do, one could deduce a further
correlation, at least when booting. But if you really want to know EXACTLY
what each one is doing, you would probably have to dig into the Darwin
source.
-- GG
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