dns lookup command

Woody · Guru Joined: 30 Nov 2002 Posts: 592 Location: Milwaukee

Hi, I used to use nslookup for resolving hosts from the shell, but I know
its been replaced by something else. In fact, I just discovered it the other
day, but I've forgotten the command. Can someone remind me? ta.

compu-tom · Posted: Fri May 23, 2003 6:57 pm Post subject:

It is

Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

dig(1) and host(1).

Woody · Guru Joined: 30 Nov 2002 Posts: 592 Location: Milwaukee

I don't have either dig or host installed. I know there was something else.
Well, I'll just install one of these.

compu-tom · Posted: Fri May 23, 2003 7:58 pm Post subject:

They are both in net-dns/bind-tools.

Regor · Posted: Sat May 24, 2003 10:43 am Post subject:

Totally off topic:

Nice avatar. "This machine kills fascists" would be a good sticker on the side of a linux box too

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nuke · n00b Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 30

It would be really good if the above package turned up when I did

emerge search dig

I couldn't believe that Gentoo didn't have at least one of nslookup/dig.

Oh well, at least folks here knew :-)

delta407 · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 4:47 am Post subject:

BitJam · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 6:20 am Post subject:

Try:

_integralpanther_ · n00b Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 7 Location: de

Hi everyone,

this thread is quiet old but in case anyone still looks for a common method without installing additional programs:

szatox · Advocate Joined: 27 Aug 2013 Posts: 3131

Getent surely is handy, but it's not the same as nslookup.
nslookup can find records of arbitrary types published on DNS and ignores any sources that are not dns.
Getent shows the IP address that would be handed to the application when resolving names, so A and AAAA entries coming from the configured sources. Including /etc/hosts and mdns if yoursystem is set to use it.