Re: How to get IP address of named host?

On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Gordon Henderson spake:
[`getent']
I've always used the 'host' command in the past for quick & dirty name
lookup (after nslookup went out of fashion!) Eg:

getent's job is not to do DNS lookups but rather to do lookups using NSS
in exactly the same way the libc would do it.

e.g. on my system:

nix@hades 177 /tmp% getent hosts loki.local
192.168.14.16 loki.local
nix@hades 178 /tmp% getent hosts loki
192.168.14.16 loki.wkstn.nix

The first of these is a lookup through Zeroconf/Avahi: the second is a
lookup via DNS. An /etc/hosts lookup, or a lookup via whatever weird new
protocol you may write NSS modules for, would work in just the same way.

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