>Number:         17489
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       pkgsrc submission for gethost
>Confidential:   yes
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jul 05 22:18:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     
>Release:        NetBSD 1.5.3_RC2
>Organization:
http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
>Environment:
	
	
System: NetBSD rainier.reedmedia.net 1.5.3_RC2 NetBSD 1.5.3_RC2 (JCR-1.5-20020520) #0: Mon May 20 17:26:50 PDT 2002 reed@rainier.reedmedia.net:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/JCR-1.5-20020520 i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
Please use pkgsrc for a new package: net/gethost

From gethost(1) man page:

DESCRIPTION
     The gethost utility does hostname and IP lookups. It returns the host-
     name, any aliases, the IPv4 or IPv6 address, and, optionally, the time
     taken for each hostname to lookup.  It uses standard Unix libraries in-
     stead of using direct DNS resolver lookups. This is useful in trou-
     bleshooting, because it will do lookups as your system sees them.

>How-To-Repeat:
Use ping(1) to test /etc/hosts and wonder why a simple tool isn't available.
>Fix:
pkgsrc is at
http://www.reedmedia.net/misc/netbsd/packages/pkgsrc-gethost.tar.gz

>Release-Note:
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