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- From: vaf@Valinor.Stanford.EDU (Vince Fuller)
- Subject: Re: How to use nslookup to go from IP address to name?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.215258.16213@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
- Keywords: nslookup, network, IP address, name
- Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
- Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
- References: <1992Jul24.104122.9943@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 21:52:58 GMT
- Lines: 10
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- |> How can I use nslookup to translate an IP address into a fully-qualified
- |> host name? It will do the reverse, but any time I feed it an address, it
- |> just parrots it back to me.
-
- Pitch "nslookup" and use "dig" (available via anonymous FTP to Venera.ISI.EDU
- in "pub/dig.2.0.tar.Z". As others have already responsed, you can use "nslookup"
- to do this, but "dig" is a far better, more intuitive, and easier-to-use tool for
- testing DNS lookups.
-
- --Vince
-