Hello, I sometimes needed a tool to query the libc network host name resolver, to know to which host a random program would attempt to connect to if I give it some host name.
Let me explain. Network client softwares usually do not do name resolutions by themselves, but rather call libc functions such as gethostbyname(3) or getaddrinfo(3). The libc, on its side, will use the nsswitch.conf(5) configuration file to know the resolutions methods to use, such as static files, mDNS, DNS or LDAP. To know the result of that resolution, a software such as host(1) is not appropriate, as it would only do DNS resolution. So, as I found no software implementing a command-line interface to query the system resolver, I coded the attached tool. I called it resolv, that may or may not be a good name. It is currently quite rough: no localization, no options, and so on. But I think it just works. Do you think such a tool would be worth being integrated to some software suite, such as inetutils? Regards, -- Tanguy Ortolo
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