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Linux command line utility to resolve host names wrt. /etc/hosts
Let's say I have an entry in my /etc/hosts
1.2.3.4 example.com
To look up example.com, I can use the commands like host, nslookup and dig, but they only do a DNS lookup (while ignoring /etc/hosts). I want a clean and easy way to run
mylookupcmd example.com
that first checks /etc/hosts and if that fails, does a DNS lookup.
I can do
ping example.com | my-scraper-that-outputs-ip-address
and get the IP address, but that's not a "clean" solution.
