avahi-resolve-host-name

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 ...

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examples

source

            
  local output=$( avahi-resolve-host-name -6 $bonjour_hostname )



  if [ ! -z
  "$output" ]
  ; then


  echo "Found host:
  $output"

description

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

options

When passing -n, specify one or more fully qualified mDNS/DNS host name(s) (e.g. "foo.local") to resolve into IP addresses on the command line. When passing -a, 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.

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This man page was written using xml2man(1) by Oliver Kurth.

authors

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