Picking through the code it seems to be whatever

socket.getfqdn()

returns in Python.

side suggestion: why are you needing the hostname? could you just use the
inventory name instead in whatever template etc. you're having issues with?

On 14 October 2015 at 00:51, Toby Corkindale <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 at 02:05 Brian Coca <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> so the fqdn gets set first by trying to do reverse dns, which would
>> not use that /etc/hosts entry, if that fails it falls back to using
>> the gethostname function which does not guarantee a fully qualified
>> domain name.
>>
>> run 'hostname' on the command line, you should see the same output.
>>
>
> Well I guess the question is: how do I fix it?
> It sounds like I need to fix the reverse DNS lookups.
>
> I do note that running "hostname -f" from the command line DOES return the
> FQDN, by the way, even though "hostname" on its own does not.
>
> -Toby
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