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Package: host (20000331-9) [universe]

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Please consider filing a bug or asking a question via Launchpad before contacting the maintainer directly.

Original Maintainer (usually from Debian):

  • Thomas Seyrat

It should generally not be necessary for users to contact the original maintainer.

Similar packages:

utility for querying DNS servers

'host' is a utility, similar to 'nslookup' (deprecated) or 'dig', used to query DNS servers for domain names and zones.

This package provides the original version of 'host', originally in the package 'dnsutils'. BIND9 provides a similar utility, in 'bind9-host'.

Packages providing host

bind9-host
Version of 'host' bundled with BIND 9.X

Other Packages Related to host

  • depends
  • recommends
  • suggests
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4)
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb

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Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
amd64 74.9 kB180.0 kB [list of files]
i386 69.9 kB168.0 kB [list of files]