AHOST(1)

💅 AHOST(1) — the General Commands Manual glow-up 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to ahost, a whole little icon from the General Commands Manual section 1, brought to you by the c-ares girlies 💖

✨ NAME ✨

ahost — prints the A or AAAA record that's tied to a hostname or an IP address. that's it, that's the whole gig 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ahost [OPTION]... HOST...

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So basically: it looks up the DNS A or AAAA record associated with HOST, where HOST is either a hostname or an IP address. literally either one, she's flexible 💅

This little cutie ships with the c-ares asynchronous resolver library, so she's got good taste, iykyk ✨

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

• -d — prints some extra debugging output. not me turning on the debug mode when things get weird 🙈
• -h, -? — displays this help and exits. classic, iconic, no notes 👑
• -t type — the vibe check for which record you want:
  • if type is "a", print the A record 💜
  • if type is "aaaa", print the AAAA record 🌈
  • if type is "u", look for both AAAA and A records — and yes bestie, that's the default ⭐
• -s server — sets the server list to use for DNS lookups. you're the main character, you pick the server 🎀
• -D domain — specifies the domain to search instead of using the default values from /etc/resolv.conf. ⚠️ but listen: this option only has an effect on platforms that use /etc/resolv.conf for DNS configuration. on other platforms (such as Win32 or Android) it has no effect at all, so don't come for her when nothing happens, fr fr 💀

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Found a bug? Report it to the c-ares mailing list, they're literally waiting:

https://lists.haxx.se/listinfo/c-ares

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

adig(1) — her sibling, also slaying 💫

and that's the whole page, bestie 🍓 this cutie is one of the c-ares utilities, dated April 2011, and yes she's still serving. periodt 💅🌷