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.. include:: ../../../common.defs

.. _developer-plugins-actions-hosts-lookup:

Hosts Lookup API
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The hosts lookup enables plugins to ask Traffic Server to do a host
lookup of a host name, much like a DNS lookup.

The hosts lookup functions are as follows:

-  :c:func:`TSHostLookup`
-  :c:func:`TSHostLookupResultAddrGet`