Equivalent of Linux command `hostname –fqdn` in Windows XP

fqdnwindows-xp

Is there a way to find the fully qualified domain name of a Windows XP box?

Being unfamiliar with Windows I would describe what I'm looking for as the equivalent of the command hostname --fqdn available in Linux.

You can find it in the system properties ("Computer name" tab).

With the command line, you can run IPCONFIG /ALL and have a look at the "Host name" and "Primary DNS suffix" fields.

This is likely to work:

perl -mNet::Domain -e 'print Net::Domain::hostfqdn(), "\n"'

but it's not guaranteed. You can view the module source:

perldoc -m Net::Domain

to see how it works (if you know Perl well enough).

Workgroup computers don't have an FQDN unless you specifically configure them to have one. They have only a NetBIOS (single label) name.

Also, don't confuse the Primary DNS suffix with the DNS suffix search list as assigned by DHCP because they're two different things.