avahi-resolve(1)

🌸 avahi-resolve — General Commands Manual, but make it a vibe

okay so bestie, welcome to the avahi-resolve page from the General Commands Manual. Manual-name moment near the top so you're not lost: we're in avahi-resolve(1) territory, and it's all about using the Avahi daemon to flip between mDNS/DNS host names and IP addresses. 💅✨

🌟 NAME

avahi-resolve — Resolve one or more mDNS/DNS host name(s) to IP address(es) (and vice versa) using the Avahi daemon.

🦋 SYNOPSIS

avahi-resolve --name host-name ...

avahi-resolve-host-name host-name ...

avahi-resolve --address address ...

avahi-resolve-address address ...

💖 DESCRIPTION

okay so the whole gig is literally this: resolve one or more mDNS/DNS host name(s) to IP address(es) (and vice versa) using the Avahi daemon. That's the sentence, that's the plot, no cap. ✨

👑 OPTIONS

When you pass -n, you specify one or more fully qualified mDNS/DNS host name(s) — like foo.local — on the command line to resolve into IP addresses. When you pass -a, you specify one or more IP address to resolve into host names. 🫶

• avahi-resolve-host-name is equivalent to avahi-resolve --name.
• avahi-resolve-address is equivalent to avahi-resolve --address.

• -n | --name — translate one or more fully qualified host names into addresses. 💅
• -a | --address — translate one or more addresses into fully qualified host names. 🎀
• -v | --verbose — enable verbose mode. 🔊
• -6 — when resolving a host name, look for IPv6 addresses exclusively. 🌈
• -4 — when resolving a host name, look for IPv4 addresses exclusively. 🦋
• -h | --help — show help. 🙈
• -V | --version — show version information. ⭐

💜 AUTHORS

The Avahi Developers — avahi (at) lists (dot) freedesktop (dot) org; Avahi is available from http://avahi.org/ 👑

🌸 SEE ALSO

• avahi-publish-address(1)
• avahi-daemon(8)

🎀 COMMENTS

This man page was written using xml2man(1) by Oliver Kurth. cute, iconic, documented. 💖

and that's the whole page, bestie — cute footer sign-off energy: the source/version tag is Manuals, the manual section is User, the title is avahi-resolve(1), and there's no date listed, so that's the whole receipt. stay resolved, fr fr 💖✨🫶