06-30-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by
porter
You are talking apples and oranges.
The ARP cache translates IP address to MAC addresses (eg ethernet node addresses) and only refers to the same subnet/network segment.
DNS does name resolving, translating a name to an IP address.
DNS knows nothing about MAC addresses.
Hi porter,
Thanks for the reply. When a name lookup has been done and initial connectivity is established dosn't it be there in the cache ?
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avahi-resolve-address
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.
SEE ALSO
avahi-publish-address(1)
COMMENTS
This man page was written using xml2man(1) by Oliver Kurth.
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