Userland "dig/host" for lookups against /etc/hosts?

[Emanuel Strobl]

Dear all,

my testbed lacks of Ethernet Ports so one machine has no connection to my DNS, 
no problem, there is something called /etc/hosts I thought.
It works if I ping 'hostname', but how can I find out the IP of 'hostname' 
from the command line? dig and host want to contact the DNS server, also 
nslookup does, so I think I need a utility which uses the gethostbyname(3) 
function. Is there one? Unfortunately I can't write one myself, at least not 
in a reasonable amount of time....

Thanks,

-Harry
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