On Mar 8, 10:18pm, Cliff Rogers wrote: > I know this is not a *nix question but I think I saw this on the > list sometime ago. Is there a way to convert "members.cox.net" to > an IP address like XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX? perl -e 'print join(".", unpack('C4', (gethostbyname("members.cox.net"))[4])), "\n"' (However, it's probably easier to use either dig or nslookup.) Kevin