[RFE] ping something via name not just IP about supportutils HOT 4 CLOSED

How do we get the domain? The hostname -d command will print it out, but only if the /etc/hosts has been updated correctly with the domain information. Is there any other way to determine server's domain?

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Hm, what about this?

domain=$(hostnamectl status | grep -Po '^\s*Static hostname: [^\.]+\.\K(.*)')
[[ -n ${domain} ]] && dig +noall +answer ${domain}. SOA
suse.de.  300  IN  SOA  dns1.suse.de.  infra.suse.de.  2021072802  3600  7200  3024000  300

It's probably nonsense as each subdomain doesn't need to have a separate delegation (ie. SOA record). Maybe this?

myhost=$(hostnamectl status | grep -Po '^ *Static hostname: \K([[:alnum:]\.-]+)')
dig ${myhost}.

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I looked at this again, but hostnamectl does not get a domain name on my SLES15 SP3 server. It appears it's not configured unless the /etc/hosts is updated. I suppose we could ping suse.com, but then that might not be valid since some server won't have external access. I supposed supportconfig would have to check if it's own FQDN is configured in /etc/hosts and then ping it if found.

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I came to conclution this is odd feature request. Thx anyway.

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