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avahi-resolve (1)

Name

avahi-resolve - 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 ...

Description

avahi-resolve(1)            General Commands Manual           avahi-resolve(1)



NAME
       avahi-resolve  -  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 ...

DESCRIPTION
       Resolve one or more mDNS/DNS host name(s) to IP address(es)  (and  vice
       versa)  using  the  Avahi  daemon. The daemon is not the standard Avahi
       daemon but a proxy to a Bonjour 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.


ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+----------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |   ATTRIBUTE VALUE    |
       +---------------+----------------------+
       |Availability   | system/network/avahi |
       +---------------+----------------------+
       |Stability      | Volatile             |
       +---------------+----------------------+

SEE ALSO
       avahi-publish-address(1)

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



NOTES
       Source  code  for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This     software     was    built    from    source    available    at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.   The  original   community
       source was downloaded from  http://avahi.org/download/avahi-0.7.tar.gz.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at http://www.avahi.org/.



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