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...