How to Display IPv6 Information Independent of Name Service

On the command line, type the following command:

% getent ipnodes host-name

The information about host-name displays.

Example 17-3 Example--Using getent to Display IPv6 Information Independent of Name Service

% getent ipnodes vallejo
2::56:a00:fe87:9aba        vallejo vallejo
fec0::56:a00:fe87:9aba     vallejo vallejo