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Re: I want to resolve the address for an IP address

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Toby Herring)
Fri Nov 20 14:32:11 1998

Reply-To: "Toby Herring" <therring@syncroflo.com>
From: "Toby Herring" <therring@syncroflo.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 14:34:47 -0500
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nslookup w.x.y.z will tell you the primary "name" configured at that
address.  But it won't give you all of the aliases, unless the hosting DNS
server is set up to provide that info.

I don't know if this always works, though.  I just know that it works for my
WWW server's IP address.
--
Toby Herring
IS Coordinator
SyncroFlo, Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From: bsc@klondike.ml.org <bsc@klondike.ml.org>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Friday, November 20, 1998 2:26 PM
Subject: I want to resolve the address for an IP address


>I want to resolve the name for a given IP address (something akin to
>dnsquery or nslookup, only backwards).
>
>e.g.
> if given IP address w.x.y.z, I want to find out that it is associated
> with wxyz.com.
>
>How do I do this?
>
>Thanks,
>Blair.
>
>--
>--- end ---
>Blair Craft
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>http://www.klondike.ml.org/~bsc
>
>
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