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- From: jackr@wpd.sgi.com (John "Jack" Repenning)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.admin
- Subject: Re: system names from IP
- Date: 14 Dec 92 17:58:13
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Lines: 17
- Message-ID: <JACKR.92Dec14175813@dblues.wpd.sgi.com>
- References: <1992Dec14.172453.26933@den.mmc.com>
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- In-reply-to: beck@enterprise.den.mmc.com's message of 14 Dec 92 17:24:53 GMT
-
- In article <1992Dec14.172453.26933@den.mmc.com> beck@enterprise.den.mmc.com (Fred R. Beck) writes:
-
- Has anyone out there ever tried to resolve a system name
- from an IP number?
-
- It turns out to be even easier than one other responder suggests.
- I've never seen documentation that admits this (so it's probably
- totally unofficial), but every version of nslookup I've ever tried
- will accept:
-
- nslookup <<EOF
- set q=ptr
- $1
- EOF
-
- That is, you don't need the shell-game to reverse the address and add
- "in-addr.arpa".
-