ABOUT nc Netcat (often abbreviated to nc) is a computer networking utility for reading from and writing to network connections using TCP or UDP. Netcat is designed to be a dependable back-end that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging …
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ypdomainname – show or set the system’s NIS/YP domain name
ABOUT NIS The Network Information Service, or NIS (originally called Yellow Pages or YP), is a client–server directory service protocol for distributing system configuration data such as user and host names between computers on a computer network. Sun Microsystems developed the NIS; the technology is licensed to virtually all other Unix vendors. Because British Telecom …
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ypdomainname
commands used to display or set domain name , hostname and YP domain name.
dig (domain information groper )
DNS lookup utility. contained in debian package “dnsutils”.