---
name: "hostbyname"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "squidguard"
version: "1.6.0-6+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/hostbyname"
---

# hostbyname(1)

Expand domain or urls list with IP addresses

## NAME

hostbyname - Expand domain or urls list with IP addresses

## SYNOPSIS

**hostbyname** \< urls \> *urls+ip*

**hostbyname**  \< domains \> *domains+ip*

## DESCRIPTION

Hostbyname takes a squidGuard domain or urls list and does some half harted effort to expand it with the corresponding IP-addresses.

## COPYRIGHT and LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2000 Pål Baltzersen

This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License version 2 can be found in \`/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.

## AUTHOR

**hostbyname** was written by Pål Baltzersen.

This manual page was written by Joachim Wiedorn \<joodebian at joonet.de\> for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

## SEE ALSO

[**squidGuard**(1)](/squidGuard/1.md), [**update-squidguard**(1)](/update-squidguard/1.md)