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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 01:23:41 -0500
From: Alexander Chamandy <bsdfreak@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Userland "dig/host" for lookups against /etc/hosts?
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On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 07:17:31 +0200, Emanuel Strobl
<emanuel.strobl@gmx.net> wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> my testbed lacks of Ethernet Ports so one machine has no connection to my DNS,
> no problem, there is something called /etc/hosts I thought.
> It works if I ping 'hostname', but how can I find out the IP of 'hostname'
> from the command line? dig and host want to contact the DNS server, also
> nslookup does, so I think I need a utility which uses the gethostbyname(3)
> function. Is there one? Unfortunately I can't write one myself, at least not
> in a reasonable amount of time....

May I ask what you're trying to do with the machine?  If you just want
local DNS resolution for experimentation you may try running BIND 9 or
TinyDNS.
 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Harry
> 
> 
> 


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