Look up IP addresses in Unix
To look up an IP address in Unix, you’ll need to know the full name of the computer you’re looking up. At the Unix shell prompt, enter one of the following commands:
nslookup machine-name.domain.name host machine-name.domain.name dig machine-name.domain.name
Replace machine-name
with the name of the computer you want to look up, and domain.name
with the rest of that computer’s address.
Note the following:
- Some newer Unix and Linux distributions do not include the
nslookup
command, and instead use eitherhost
ordig
to look up IP addresses. - Not all internet nodes can be resolved into IP addresses by these commands.