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This article is from the AmiTCP/IP FAQ, by Mike Meyer with numerous contributions by others.

8.8: AmigaELM uses the HOSTNAME but AmiTCP seems to want the fullyqualified domain name. How can I resolve this problem? (Thanks to Jarnoand Michael)

You could probably set the variable to "name only", since AmiTCP/IP itself
does not use the variable at all. Some application programs (such as
e-mail) might have problems, though. The current standard on the various
Unix versions is that the HOSTNAME is the fully qualified host name (with
the domain). 
AmiTCP 3.0 and 4.0 fix this by implementing the gethostname() function
differently (the name is taken from the name server/host database instead
of the HOSTNAME variable if possible).  

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