[comp.org.eff.talk] Finding hosts/domains

hes@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Henry E. Schaffer) (05/11/91)

In article <1991May9.234942.8097@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> otto@fsu1.cc.fsu.edu writes:
>In article <1991May9.140913.616@ncsu.edu>, hes@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Henry E. Schaffer) writes...
>>In article <1991May9.065816.2286@milton.u.washington.edu> cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) writes:
>>> ...
>>>So, is there a SENATE.GOV domain?  And how does one use it?
>> 
>>  My router says that house.gov is reached via uunet, and that
>>senate.gov doesn't exist.
>> 
>>--henry schaffer  n c state univ
>
>Could you post the info from your router?  I'm just curious, learning how
>various look-up mechanisms work...jgo

  There is a program called "host" which is on many Unix systems
(it may be a public domain program which must be found and installed)
which is on the host I'm using.  There is a man page, and typing

man host        give me the following info
                                                                    HOST(1)

     NAME
          host - look up host names using domain server

     SYNOPSIS
...

  So I gave the command         host house.gov

and the program gave me the following

house.gov mail is handled by relay1.UU.NET
house.gov mail is handled by news.UU.NET
house.gov mail is handled by uunet.UU.NET

but the command         host senate.gov

gives the result 

Host not found.


  The  host  program can get much more detailed information,
and is a very interesting tool.  Read the man pages for that
info.

--henry schaffer  n c state univ

karl.kleinpaste@osc.edu (05/11/91)

hes@ccvr1.ncsu.edu writes:
   There is a program called "host" which is on many Unix systems
   (it may be a public domain program which must be found and installed)

Pick your transport...you'll find host.[1c] in...
ftp	tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:pub/nameserver/
uucp	                 osu-cis!~/nameserver/
(Don't forget that metachars don't work in uucp to osu-cis.  Multiple
uucp commands are req'd.)

Thanx are due to Chuck Hedrick/Rutgers for having produced "host."

--karl