Sven Uhlig wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > getent baldur.asgard > > That is why I used C's getnameinfo(). > > How should getent work? > > # getent baldur.asgard > Unknown database: baldur.asgard Sorry. That was a bad example on my part. The first parameter is the map name and the second is the key to look up in it. getent hosts baldur.asgard Other uses are for looking up passwd, group, aliases, and so forth. Here are some additional examples of usage. $ getent aliases root root: bob@proulx.com $ getent passwd rwp rwp:x:1000:1000:Bob Proulx:/home/bob:/bin/bash $ getent group staff staff:x:50:rwp $ getent hosts www.example.com 2001:500:88:200::10 www.example.com IPv6. I guess I should have specified one of these: $ getent ahosts www.example.com 192.0.43.10 STREAM www.example.com 192.0.43.10 DGRAM 192.0.43.10 RAW 2001:500:88:200::10 STREAM 2001:500:88:200::10 DGRAM 2001:500:88:200::10 RAW $ getent ahostsv4 www.example.com 192.0.43.10 STREAM 43-10.any.icann.org 192.0.43.10 DGRAM 192.0.43.10 RAW $ getent ahostsv6 www.example.com 2001:500:88:200::10 STREAM www.example.com 2001:500:88:200::10 DGRAM 2001:500:88:200::10 RAW For just normal use I prefer the bind9-host command version of host for the most friendly lookup format. $ host www.example.com www.example.com has address 192.0.43.10 www.example.com has IPv6 address 2001:500:88:200::10 $ host -t a www.example.com www.example.com has address 192.0.43.10 > Nevermind, my problem is solved, see mail by Clive Standbridge. :) Yay! Bob
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