HOST

• finds name to IP or IP to name in IPv4 and IPv6 and also queries DNS records

# host -t CNAME www.redhat.com

www.redhat.com is an alias for wildcard.redhat.com.edgekey.net.

• by using the -t option we can find out DNS Resource Records like CNAME, NS, MX, SOA, etc.

host command to find name to IP or IP to name in IPv4 or IPv6 and also query DNS records.

# host www.google.com

www.google.com has address 173.194.38.180

www.google.com has address 173.194.38.176

www.google.com has address 173.194.38.177

www.google.com has address 173.194.38.178

www.google.com has address 173.194.38.179

www.google.com has IPv6 address 2404:6800:4003:802::1014

Using -t option we can find out DNS Resource Records like CNAME, NS, MX, SOA etc.

# host -t CNAME www.redhat.com