hosted

A quick and dirty application to resolve a DNS name and determine if that address resolves locally.

The primary motivation for writing hosted was to determine if a floating/Virtual address is on the local machine.

building

requirements

• A C compiler
• POSIX
• probably Linux
• maybe BSD
• potatoes
• oh yea, gnu make
• love
• jk computers don't love

installing

  make

or if you are a little more discerning:

  make build
  sudo make install

usage

   hosted <qualified domain name>

If the name is hosted locally the application will return 0 If it's not hosted it will return 1, if there is an error it throws the string error to standard error and returns 2.

example

This allows programmers to chain `hosted' into bash commands

  hosted www.google.com || echo "why would you be hosting google?"