Digging to the final IP

[John Wobus]

On Oct 21, 2014, at 4:00 PM, Evan Hunt wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:07:15PM -0700, Warren Kumari wrote:
>>> dig A $name | awk '$0 ~ /status/ && $0 !~ /status: NOERROR,/ {
>>>                        sub(",", "", $6 ); print $6; x=1
>>>                   }
>>>                   $4 == "A" { print $5; x=1 }
>>>                   END { if (!x) print "TIMEOUT" }'
>>
>>
>> Because, not everyone is as stunningly brilliant as you?
>>
>> To a non-zero population of this list the above looks like line- 
>> noise...
>
> Could be worse, could be perl...

But if perl were acceptable,

perl -e 'printf "%vd\n", (gethostbyname "example.com")[4]'

John