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- Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!lhc!adm!news
- From: sgf@cfm.brown.edu (Sam Fulcomer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: system names from IP
- Message-ID: <34676@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 22:35:28 GMT
- Sender: news@adm.brl.mil
- Lines: 26
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- In article <1992Dec14.172453.26933@den.mmc.com>, beck@enterprise.den.mmc.com (Fred R. Beck) writes:
- |> Howdy!
- |>
- |> Has anyone out there ever tried to resolve a system name
- |> from an IP number? I've been poking around and the closest
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- I just use a stupid shell (csh) script which I've never bothered to make more
- elegant (stdin if argc = 1, argc >2, etc...):
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- #!/bin/csh
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- set revaddr=`echo $1 | awk -F. '{printf("%s.%s.%s.%s\n",$4,$3,$2,$1)}' `
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- nslookup <<%%
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- set query=ptr
- set domain=in-addr.arpa
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- $revaddr
-
- %%
-
-
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