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Go Systems Programming

You're reading from   Go Systems Programming Master Linux and Unix system level programming with Go

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125643
Length 466 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mihalis Tsoukalos Mihalis Tsoukalos
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Go and Unix Systems Programming 2. Writing Programs in Go FREE CHAPTER 3. Advanced Go Features 4. Go Packages, Algorithms, and Data Structures 5. Files and Directories 6. File Input and Output 7. Working with System Files 8. Processes and Signals 9. Goroutines - Basic Features 10. Goroutines - Advanced Features 11. Writing Web Applications in Go 12. Network Programming

Performing DNS lookups

There exist many types of DNS lookups, but two of them are the most popular. In the first type, you want to go from an IP address to a domain name and in the second type you want to go from a domain name to an IP address.

The following output shows an example of the first type of DNS lookup:

$ host 109.74.193.253
253.193.74.109.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer li140-253.members.linode.com.

The following output shows three examples of the second type of DNS lookup:

$ host www.mtsoukalos.eu
www.mtsoukalos.eu has address 109.74.193.253
$ host www.highiso.net
www.highiso.net has address 109.74.193.253
$ host -t a cnn.com
cnn.com has address 151.101.1.67
cnn.com has address 151.101.129.67
cnn.com has address 151.101.65.67
cnn.com has address 151.101.193.67

As you just saw in the aforementioned examples, an IP address can serve many hosts and a host name can have...

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