Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:29:20 +0200 From: Emanuel Strobl <emanuel.strobl@gmx.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Alexander Chamandy <bsdfreak@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Userland "dig/host" for lookups against /etc/hosts? Message-ID: <200503280829.34960@harrymail> In-Reply-To: <f420b2a105032722234b949ea3@mail.gmail.com> References: <200503280717.41037@harrymail> <f420b2a105032722234b949ea3@mail.gmail.com>
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--nextPart1252932.eWko8udWtj Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Am Montag, 28. M=E4rz 2005 08:23 schrieb Alexander Chamandy: > 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. No DNS experiments, I'm very well equiped (authoritative DNS). It's just th= at=20 my local subnet (productive) has not enough ethernet ports so one=20 test-machine (in another subnet) cannot be connected to the local net and t= he=20 two other subnets are for testing only, so none routes to my productive=20 net.... Everything is working fine, just curiosity.. =2DHarry > > > Thanks, > > > > -Harry --nextPart1252932.eWko8udWtj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCR6ROBylq0S4AzzwRAprlAJ4le5hVhLrOZbKnAUH5goUD9Q1kiQCdEeBf rZjYDUGfFmVoXrkqKYoxQOc= =6bTL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1252932.eWko8udWtj--
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