On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Andrew Reilly wrote:

> is reasonable.  I have recently noticed that looking up names with the
> "host" or "dig" commands fail unless the name is fully qualified on the
> command line.  On the other hand, commands such as ping do append the

It is normal for host and dig to not use resolver library.

I wrote a simple tool to do lookups. It is in pkgsrc at pkgsrc/net/gethost
or at http://www.reedmedia.net/software/gethost/

 Jeremy C. Reed

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