RE: How to do a dns lookup on a system without

If gethostbyname works wouldn't ping give you that same information?




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Rob Berendt
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I did a search for Scott Klement and gethostbyname and found a solution.
I think I can figure this out faster than I could figure out how to load
something from an open source repository. I appreciate the effort.
However it's after 4 and I'm off for the holy days.


Rob Berendt
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From: "Kevin Adler" <kadler@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 12/22/2016 03:45 PM
Subject: Re: How to do a dns lookup on a system without
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Those utilities are not actually part of Unix, but part of BIND:
[1]
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/basicnet/bind-utils.html

Many Linux distributions and other platforms tend to separate the
BIND
server from the utilities in to separate installable packages, but it
seems they were bundled on IBM i instead of having two separate
product
options.

You could try installing from one of the various AIX open source
repositories, such as Perzl.org or Bull Freeware:
[2]
http://www.bullfreeware.com/search.php?package=bind-utils&with_provides=



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Subject: How to do a dns lookup on a system without
Date: Thu, Dec 22, 2016 2:26 PM

If you load the following on your system you will get the NSLOOKUP
command:
Resource
ID Option Feature Description
5770SS1 31 5050 Domain Name System

I've removed that option from many lpars because IBM uses such an
old
version of bind that one fails audits. I wanted to ensure that it
just
could not be started, accidentally or otherwise.
I really feel that the nslookup command is a 'client' command and
not
a
server command and should exist independently of that option.
However
I'm
trying to get work done so instead of submitting another RFE I'd
like
to
find an IBM i based alternative. (Noticed I dropped off the word
"native"?) QP2TERM and QSH both lack the 'ix commands HOST and DIG
(unless you load option 31). Are they there but just not in the
default
path?

Rob Berendt
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Dept 1600
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