[TriLUG] Reverse Lookup Using /etc/hosts

[Tarus Balog]

On Apr 25, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Alexei Znamensky wrote:

> I could swear that ping would do the trick, but it doesn't. You can  
> always
> do it the dirty way:
>
> grep "^${IP_NUMBER}" /etc/hosts | awk '{ print $2 }'
>
> Sorry I dont have anything better right now.

Thanks. To be specific I need the Java getHostByName command to  
resolve by /etc/hosts. Prolly much harder. (grin)

-T

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