host command

[Auke Kok]

On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 16:17, Claus Helbing wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am quite puzzeld not to find the "host" command on my lunar installation.
> The seems to be a similar command in the adns package but I would like to avoid
> installing another package just to get a standard command.
> 
> Any ideas ?

the *OTHER* package installing 'host' is bind, but I guess you don't
really want that.

as a side note, glibc comes with "getent", which uses libresolv:

$ getent hosts lunar-linux.org
216.228.105.15  lunar-linux.org

maybe this is enough for your needs?

sofar


> 
> Thank you very much,
> Claus

-- 
Auke Kok <auke.kok at planet.nl>
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