Resolve is an, open-source wrapper to the host command.
If you need to resolve process multiple IP addresses to host names then resolve should be able to help you.
IP address can be piped into resolve. In addition resolve will attempt to resolve any command line arguments.
The example usage file contins examples of how to use resove.
Resolve is open source, therefore if you make improvements please submit them back to the main project.
Below is an eample of how to use resolve:
cat /var/log/httpd/access_log | awk ‘{print $1}’ | sort -u | /path/to/reslove
This will provide a list of IP address and the domain names of machines who have been accessing your apache web server. This means you will not need to configure Apache to resolve DNS names in the logs.
There are various other ways you may find to use resolve.
What’s New in This Release:
· Minor bugs were fixed.
· A -f option that allows an input file to be specified was added.