Merge pull request #2216 from rsarm/hostname-fqdn

[feat] Use fully qualified domain names when retrieving hostnames

Author: Vasileios Karakasis

reframe/core/config.py

@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ def _detect_system(self):
             with open('/etc/xthostname') as fp:
                 hostname = fp.read()
         else:
-            hostname = socket.gethostname()
+            hostname = socket.getfqdn()
 
         getlogger().debug(
             f'Looking for a matching configuration entry '

reframe/frontend/cli.py

@@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ def print_infoline(param, value):
         'cmdline': ' '.join(sys.argv),
         'config_file': rt.site_config.filename,
         'data_version': runreport.DATA_VERSION,
-        'hostname': socket.gethostname(),
+        'hostname': socket.getfqdn(),
         'prefix_output': rt.output_prefix,
         'prefix_stage': rt.stage_prefix,
         'user': osext.osuser(),