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Re: [opensuse] More Networking Configuration: Local Aliases
  • From: Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:07:12 +0200
  • Message-id: <200904101307.12470.ajohansson@xxxxxxx>
On Friday 10 April 2009 12:12:38 Carlos E. R. wrote:
For some strange reason I don't know about, the command "host" queries the
dns server first, or only

Only.

"host" is a part of of the collection of DNS utilities we have from ISC. Its
express purpose is to query DNS servers

man host

NAME
host - DNS lookup utility
DESCRIPTION
host is a simple utility for performing DNS lookups.

Anders
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