====== host ======

  * [[Networking]]
  * [[DNS]]

The ''host'' command is designed to do lookups through the DNS server.  It doesn't use ''/etc/hosts'' to resolve names.

== Display lookup details ==

This will display which DNS server it is querying.

<code>
host -v beandog.org
</code>

== Reverse lookup ==

Find the hostname of an IP address.

<code>
host 192.168.13.3
</code>