On 05/01/2014 05:12 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Robert Moskowitz <rgm(a)htt-consult.com> said:
> Kind of thought so. So is there an equiv command that follows
> system priorities for both dns and hosts file?
getent hosts
www.google.com
That will follow the IPv6-before-IPv4 rules (so by default, if the host
has an IPv6 entry, only that will be shown).
Yes. It is stopping at the ipv6 address
To see all the matches, IPv6 and IPv4, you can use "ahosts"
instead
comannd not found. I will have to figure out what rpm provides it, as
it was not part of the base f20 install. But thanks
(which also has "ahostsv4" and "ahostsv6" to get
only a specific address
family). That will return all socket types (so usually STREAM, DGRAM,
and RAW). This is done via a calls to getaddrinfo() and so should match
the behavior of modern (akak IPv6-ready) programs.