addr2name1
Perform dns lookups from scripts
Usage
addr2name [-46cmnr]
[HOSTNAMES]
name2addr [-46cn]
[HOSTNAMES]
Descripton
Write addresses or canonical hostname of specified names to the standard output. If no names are specified via the command line, they are read from the standard input.
Options
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-4 or --ipv4 -
Only try to perform IPv4 lookups.
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-6 or --ipv6 -
Only try to perform IPv6 lookups.
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-c or --config -
Only lookup and print results for address families that match locally configured addresses (If the system has no IPv4 resp IPv6 address, then IPv4 resp IPv6 addresses are ignored).
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-h or --help -
Display some help and exit.
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-m or --multiple -
Normally, if a name yields multiple results, only the first one is printed. With this optional parameter, all results will be printed on a single line, separated by spaces.
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-n or --numeric -
Prevent forward hostname lookup. This ensures that the input names are numeric addresses, which do not need to be looked up. Typically used along with the --reverse option to convert numerical addresses to canonical hostnames.
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-r or --reverse -
Perform a reverse DNS lookup (enabled implicitly with
addr2name).addr2nameprints numerical resolved addresses by default instead.
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--version -
Display program version and license and exit.
Releases
10 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 2 times.
--config since Debian 7 (Wheezy);
-c since Debian 7 (Wheezy).