Unix command "host" - is there Windows equivalent?

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Alexander Mills picture Alexander Mills · Feb 3, 2014 · Viewed 36.9k times · Source

I am on a Windows 7 machine and I was instructed to use the Unix command "host" as per this article:

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/custom-domains

however, host is not a valid command with Windows and even with bash on Windows I could find host installed.

Is there a Windows equivalent to "host"?

Answer

Jim Stewart picture Jim Stewart · Feb 3, 2014

This question is more suited to Super User, but the command you're looking for is nslookup. Both are (at their most basic) used to look up IP addresses for hostnames. You can run cmd and do nslookup hostname the same way you'd do host hostname. If you need something other than the IP address, the command-line arguments will differ. Run nslookup with no arguments and type help at the prompt for details.

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