From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 24 2:37:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nelly.internal.irrelevant.org (irrelevant.demon.co.uk [158.152.220.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65CEE37B417 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 02:37:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from simond by nelly.internal.irrelevant.org with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 167aBi-0000Na-00; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 10:37:34 +0000 Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 10:37:34 +0000 From: Simon Dick To: Jim Conner Cc: The Anarcat , cjclark@alum.mit.edu, FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: can't do reverse dns with /etc/hosts Message-ID: <20011124103734.GB386@irrelevant.org> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011123164749.0245ec60@mail.enterit.com> <20011114173647.D66694@blossom.cjclark.org> <20011115012039.GA61093@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org> <20011114173647.D66694@blossom.cjclark.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20011123164749.0245ec60@mail.enterit.com> <5.1.0.14.0.20011123172728.02c61518@mail.enterit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011123172728.02c61518@mail.enterit.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 05:30:43PM -0500, Jim Conner wrote: > At 16:30 11.23.2001 -0500, The Anarcat wrote: > >On Fri Nov 23, 2001 at 04:48:54PM -0500, Jim Conner wrote: > >> At 16:14 11.23.2001 -0500, The Anarcat wrote: > >> >On Wed Nov 14, 2001 at 05:36:47PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > >> >> > >> >> host(1) _always_ uses DNS. > >> >> > >> > > >> >Doh! I should have RTFM... sorry. > >> > > >> >Is there a tool that doesn't use just DNS? > >> > >> grep hostname /etc/hosts > >> grep password /etc/hosts > >> > >> Those ought to work. > > > >The thing is that I want to test the functionality of the resolver. > > > >I need a simple userland gethostby* interface. :) nslookup and host and > >friends are all DNS oriented, IIUC. > > > >Anyways, I'll probably end up writing my own one-liner. ;) > > Unfortunately, I am not familiar with such a thing. I have been in need of > the same kind of tool. I will be interested to see what others say. It > seems obvious to me that this is not a name lookup mechanism but a type of > Unix lookup since the /etc/hosts file was used way before DNS was ever > thought up. There must be a built-in tool/library somewhere that can do > what you are trying to accomplish. I guess my method of just using ping and seeing what IP it tries to ping won't be suitable for this? :) -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org "Why do I get this urge to go bowling everytime I see Tux?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message