On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 07:17:31 +0200, Emanuel Strobl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > my testbed lacks of Ethernet Ports so one machine has no connection to my DNS, > no problem, there is something called /etc/hosts I thought. > It works if I ping 'hostname', but how can I find out the IP of 'hostname' > from the command line? dig and host want to contact the DNS server, also > nslookup does, so I think I need a utility which uses the gethostbyname(3) > function. Is there one? Unfortunately I can't write one myself, at least not > in a reasonable amount of time....
May I ask what you're trying to do with the machine? If you just want local DNS resolution for experimentation you may try running BIND 9 or TinyDNS. > Thanks, > > -Harry > > > -- Best wishes, Alexander G. Chamandy Webmaster www.bsdfreak.org Your Source For BSD News! _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
