host command

[Claus Helbing]

Ok ... I guess I will have to install "bind" eventhough I will not use 
bind but, without knowing "adns", I prefer standard packages.

Thany a lot for your answer,
Claus

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Auke Kok" <auke.kok at planet.nl>
To: "Lunar Linux Mailing List! (all are welcome)" <lunar at lunar-linux.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: host command
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

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Auke Kok <auke.kok at planet.nl>