utility to call getaddrinfo(3)

[Taylor R Campbell <campbell+netbsd-tech-userlevel%mumble.net@localhost>]

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I'd like to import the following little utility to call getaddrinfo(3)
and print its output human- and awk-readably:

http://www.NetBSD.org/~riastradh/tmp/getaddrinfo-20130425.tgz

I often find that I want to see why applications are behaving the way
they are when dig(1) doesn't explain it, and as far as I know we have
no utility in base to answer this question, so I'd like to fill that
gap.

Comments?  Objections?



NAME
     getaddrinfo -- resolve names to socket addresses

SYNOPSIS
     getaddrinfo [-cnNP] [-f family] [-p protocol] [-t socktype] [-s service]
                 [hostname]

DESCRIPTION
     The getaddrinfo utility resolves host and service names to socket
     addresses as if with the getaddrinfo(3) routine and formats them to
     standard output.