Host how to

[Kihara Muriithi]

Hi,
 There is this tool called host that is supposed to resolve a host
names to an IP. I am having issues on how to use it, i.e the syntax
and switch use to make it helpful. Man page is a little unfriendly and
google threw way too way too many useless pages due to the heavy usage
of the word "host" in other context. Would someone be kind enough to
type a few oxamples of how to use this tool, i.e one extracting a name
from IP address and the other doing reverse?
Thanks in advance
William
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