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Name-services host-record svm.uuid host endpoint overview

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Overview

Displays the IP address of the specified hostname and vice-versa.

Retrieving the host table entries

The host-record GET endpoint to retrieve the hostname for a given Ip address and vice-versa.

Examples

Retrieving the hostname for a given IP address.

# The API:
GET /api/name-services/host-record/{svm.uuid}/{host}

# The call:
curl -X GET "https://<mgmt-ip>/api/name-services/host-record/77e23bd4-a8fe-11eb-99e0-0050568e14ff/127.0.0.1" -H "accept: application/json"

# The response:
 {
"svm": {
  "uuid": "77e23bd4-a8fe-11eb-99e0-0050568e14ff",
  "name": "svm1"
 },
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"ipv4_addresses": [
  "127.0.0.1"
 ],
"hostname": "localhost",
"source": "Files"
 }

Retrieving the Ip address for a given hostname.

# The API:
GET /api/name-services/host-record/{svm.uuid}/{host}

# The call:
curl -X GET "https://<mgmt-ip>/api/name-services/host-record/77e23bd4-a8fe-11eb-99e0-0050568e14ff/localhost" -H "accept: application/json"

# The response:
 {
"svm": {
  "uuid": "77e23bd4-a8fe-11eb-99e0-0050568e14ff",
  "name": "svm1"
},
"host": "localhost",
"ipv4_addresses": [
  "127.0.0.1"
],
"ipv6_addresses": [
  "::1"
],
"hostname": "localhost",
"canonical_name": "localhost",
"source": "Files"
 }