Ns addrbyhost

Man page: http://aolserver.com/docs/tcl/ns_addrbyhost.html

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NAME

ns_addrbyhost - Forward lookup a hostname to its IP address

SYNOPSIS

ns_addrbyhost ?-all? hostname

DESCRIPTION

This command resolves a hostname to its IP address. If the hostname cannot be resolved, it throws an error.

-all switch is new in AOLserver 4.5 and will return a list of all IP addresses when more than one A or CNAME DNS record exists for this host.

EXAMPLES

 % ns_addrbyhost www.aol.com
 64.12.187.22

 % ns_addrbyhost bogus.domain
 could not lookup bogus.domain
     while executing
 "ns_addrbyhost bogus.domain"

SEE ALSO

ns_hostbyaddr

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